Assistant Professor
Peter Verkinderen is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Digital Humanities AKU-ISMC and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the KITAB project working on the central regions of the Islamic lands.
He studied Classics and Oriental Languages and Cultures (with a focus on Akkadian and Arabic) at Ghent University. His PhD dissertation, also at Ghent University, was a reconstruction of the fluvial landscape of early Islamic Lower Mesopotamia, based on (mostly Arabic) texts, satellite imagery and data from archaeological and geological research.
He has worked as the assistant director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (2009-2014) and as a research fellow in the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work” (Hamburg University, 2014-2019), where he focused on the position of Fārs (SW Iran) in the early Islamic empire.
His main research interests lie with the historical and geographical literature on the early Islamic empire. In recent years, the development of digital tools for historical and philological research has become one of his main interests. He is currently also involved in IslamAtlas, a research project aimed at the study and digital edition of the geographical texts and maps usually attributed to al-Iṣṭakhrī and Ibn Ḥawqal.
A self-taught programmer, he is part of the technical team that maintains and develops the OpenITI corpus (with Lorenz Nigst and Masoumeh Seydi), the openiti Python library, and the KITAB web apps (with Soheil Merchant and Mathew Barber).
He is also the lead teacher of the Digital Humanities courses at AKU-ISMC.
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About Peter Verkinderen
Peter Verkinderen is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Digital Humanities AKU-ISMC and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the KITAB project working on the central regions of the Islamic lands.
He studied Classics and Oriental Languages and Cultures (with a focus on Akkadian and Arabic) at Ghent University. His PhD dissertation, also at Ghent University, was a reconstruction of the fluvial landscape of early Islamic Lower Mesopotamia, based on (mostly Arabic) texts, satellite imagery and data from archaeological and geological research.
He has worked as the assistant director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (2009-2014) and as a research fellow in the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work” (Hamburg University, 2014-2019), where he focused on the position of Fārs (SW Iran) in the early Islamic empire.
His main research interests lie with the historical and geographical literature on the early Islamic empire. In recent years, the development of digital tools for historical and philological research has become one of his main interests. He is currently also involved in IslamAtlas, a research project aimed at the study and digital edition of the geographical texts and maps usually attributed to al-Iṣṭakhrī and Ibn Ḥawqal.
A self-taught programmer, he is part of the technical team that maintains and develops the OpenITI corpus (with Lorenz Nigst and Masoumeh Seydi), the openiti Python library, and the KITAB web apps (with Soheil Merchant and Mathew Barber).
He is also the lead teacher of the Digital Humanities courses at AKU-ISMC.
| Present | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Aga Khan University ‐ Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations | |
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