Dijital Beşerî Bilimler Bağlamında İlahiyat/İslâmî İlimler

Abstract

Developments in the field of digital humanities in recent years have occupied the agenda of academia with projects and studies, including Islamic sciences. In general, the history and literature of the field of digital humanities and the various studies in these fields have taken place in the Turkish literature. However, no text has yet been written about studies and projects related to Islamic sciences, nor has a roadmap yet been created for academicians and researchers interested in these fields. The aims of this article are to provide a framework for researchers who are interested in the methods of digital humanities in the field of theology and to present examples from projects related to this field. In this context, this article will discuss the digital possibilities used in the field of theology within the framework of databases and softwares, and then address the working processes of digital humanities within the scope of data acquisition, cleaning, analysis, and visualization. This article will also evaluate prominent studies based on the new research methods digital humanities have brought to this field and projects that will have a long-lasting impact on the future of Islamic sciences under the relevant headings. ABSTRACT This article discusses the processes related to Islamic sciences with a focus on digital humanities, which has emerged as an area that goes beyond being a technical support for researchers, one that also aims to collect the mostly scattered data with its own methods in order to classify it systematically and to make comprehensive analyses and visualizations based on big data. In order to do this, the article first addresses the digital possibilities used in the literature of Islamic sciences up to the present based on Turkey, as well as the databases, digital libraries, and softwares used in the field. The article will then go on to present the definition and processes of digital humanities (DH) that are affiliated with Islamic sciences. The studies conducted in Islamic sciences in this context are seen to present a complex structure that involves the creation of large collections and large datasets based on these collections, as well as their analyses and visualizations, interdisciplinary collaborations, and backing from strong financial support. The article discusses knowledge production in the field of Islamic sciences within the scope of this transformation in related literature and the effect the transition to the digital age has had on this knowledge production in terms of the nature of sources. Accordingly, this process started with manuscripts, continued with printed texts and editorial publications, and then expanded with research based on this literature. The use of digital tools in the field has led to various transformations, and these tools have been used extensively in the digitization of Islamic literature. Databases and digital libraries have become widespread that provide access to handwritten texts and documents belonging to pre-printing press and printed main sources and research in the field of theology (ilahiyat). After this source digitalization-based process, the processes of transforming sources into data and analyzing them are seen to have occurred with studies generally carried out in the context of DH in Western academia. This article has attempted to