A Topic Modelling of Muslim Religious Reform in the Colonial Age: A Computational and Digital Study of al-Manār (1898-1935)
Ryad U. Mohamed E.
2024Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University
Journal of Cultural Analytics
2024#9Issue 3
The present paper is a test case of how far computational sciences and Islamic and Arabic studies can be “partners” in answering cultural-religious and historical questions related to the Arab and Muslim world. The paper mainly discusses methods that could help us computationally track, quantify, and explain the development of religious concerns of reform as reflected in the well-known Muslim reformist journal al-Manār (Lighthouse), published by the Muslim reformer Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) from 1898 until 1935 in Cairo. We employ quantitative and qualitative methods based on al-Manār-corpus by using morphological processing, topic modeling in order to examine the thematic co-occurrences of the topics and lexemes pertaining to Muslim thinking and societies in Riḍā’s time.
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KU Leuven, Belgium
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
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