The Compendium of Histories of the Arabian Peninsula and Persia
Al-Qasimi Compendium, 1622–1810 · 33 Volumes · A Sealed Scholarly Corpus.
These figures are counts of what the pipeline extracted, not an exhaustive reading of the corpus. Supporting matter — apparatus, front and back matter, reference lists — is excluded throughout. How these are counted
Three ways to read the archive
Atlas
Trace every record on the map. Filter by year, route, person, or event. The cartographic reading room.
Concordance
Deep full-text search across record bodies, names, places, and editorial summaries.
Network
The graph of correspondence — who wrote to whom, how often, across half a century.
About This Project
This project digitises, segments, and annotates the The Compendium of Histories (1622–1810). Each record is parsed for metadata, and named entities are extracted, canonicalised, and linked to build a structured knowledge graph of its people, places, and events.