About the Project
A digital humanities atlas of The Compendium of Histories of the Arabian Peninsula and Persia, 1622–1810 — an episodic chronicle of the region's rulers, tribes, ports, trade, and conflicts.
Mission
The Historical Documentary Atlas digitises, segments, and annotates The Compendium of Histories of the Arabian Peninsula and Persia (1622–1810) — an episodic chronicle spanning the Gulf, Arabia, and Persia. Each record is parsed for its events, people, and places, which are recognised, canonicalised, and linked across the chronicle to build a structured knowledge graph of the period.
Sources
The Compendium comprises thirty-three volumes of episodic history drawn from the Al-Qasimi collection, covering 1622–1810. The records narrate the rulers, tribes, ports, and campaigns of the Arabian Peninsula and Persia, preserved in both English and Arabic editions.
Methodological Approach
Records are extracted from the source volumes — including page-image vision extraction for the Arabic editions — then segmented into episodes and the detail events within them. Entities and events are recognised, linked, and dated, each carrying a confidence score and a citation back to its source volume and page.
Corpus at a Glance
- 3985 records across 182 years (1622–1810)
- 2654 distinct named entities
- 445 geocoded places
- 3921 extracted events
- 33 source volumes · Al-Qasimi Compendium
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
Credits
This project is built and maintained as a digital humanities initiative. The Compendium of Histories of the Arabian Peninsula and Persia is sourced from the Al-Qasimi collection. The pipeline, API, and frontend are open-source contributions to historical scholarship of the Gulf and the wider Indian Ocean world.
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Questions, corrections, or collaboration proposals are welcome.