Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Universitätsring 1
Department of History
University of Vienna
1010 Wien
Austria
ABOUT
Maxim Romanov is a Universitätsassistent für Digital Humanities at the Institute for History, University of Vienna. His dissertation (Near Eastern Studies, U of Michigan, 2013) explored how modern computational techniques of text analysis can be applied to the study of premodern Arabic historical sources. In particular, he studied “The History of Islam” (Ta'rikh al-islam), the largest of surviving biographical collections with over 30,000 biographies, written by the Damascene scholar al-Dhahabi (d. 1348 CE). Currently, he continues his study of this biographical collection (“The History of Islam”: An Essay in Digital Humanities), which will serve as methodological and infrastructural foundation for the study of all surviving Arabic biographical collections and chronicles. Additionally, he is working on a series of foundational projects for the field of Arabic and Islamic studies, which include 1) a machine-readable corpus of classical Arabic texts (see, OpenITI/OpenArabic), 2) a text-reuse project (see, KITAB), and 3) a gazetteer of the classical Islamic world (see, al-Thurayya).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Islamic Studies
Historiography
13th-18th Centuries
Information Technology/Computing
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Digital History, Gis, Text Analysis
Arabic Written Tradition And Historiography
Social History Of The Premodern Islamic World
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (fluent)
Russian (native)
Education
DPhil
| 2013
| Near Eastern Studies
| University of Michigan
MA
| 2010
| Near Eastern Studies
| University of Michigan
MA
| 2001
| Sociology
| St.Petersburg State University
Abstracts
Ibn Hanbal’s (d. 241/855) Argumentative Strategies
The legitimization of the practice of wa'z in the late 12th century CE
Social History of the Muslim World in the Digital Age: Making Sense of 25,000 Biographies from Al-Dhahabi's "History of Islam"
Islamic World Connected (660-1300 CE)
Exploring Islamic Written Legacy: Computational Reading of Hadiyyat al-'Arifin
Of A Network and A Node: "The History of Islam" of al-Dhahabi (d. 1348) and its place in the Premodern Arabic Textual Tradition
Looking for the author behind the words: Stylometric Analysis of al-Dhahabi’s (d. 1347) Writings
Something old, Something new, Something borrowed: Computational Analysis of Writing Practices of Islamic Scholars
One source to rule them all: constructing the master chronicle for Islamic history
