Handwriting Style Analysis in Arabic Papyri, Parchments, and Papers

Sonego, Leonora (11. Dezember 2025): Handwriting Style Analysis in Arabic Papyri, Parchments, and Papers. The Case of Abū Hurayra. In: Journal of Digital Islamicate Research, Bd. 3, Nr. 2: S. 335-361

Abstract

This paper evaluates a combined palaeographic-computational method to identify scribes in historic documents, more precisely Arabic papyri, where automatic feature extraction is not possible. The challenge is to define features that a human scholar can mark up in a reasonable amount of time, and that are relevant for the given question (e.g., Do we want to identify a scribe, or the period of production?). The paper presents a reference dataset of several dozen securely dated documents belonging to different contexts (private/official/legal), some of which can be assigned to specific persons. Because we had only a limited number of text-independent features at our disposal, the results turned out to be unreliable.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Naher und Mittlerer Osten ; Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Naher und Mittlerer Osten > Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 960 Geschichte Afrikas
• ISSN: 2773-2363
• Sprache: Englisch
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 461123607