Python in digital humanities research

Cornelis van Lit is a scholar of medieval Islamic philosophy. He has studied and worked at universities around the world, such as McGill, Yale, and Freie Universitat Berlin. Having been into programming since a young age, he found himself drawn to incorporate computing technology in his work, with Python as a reliable ally. But, given that virtually no one had done so before him, many of the basic problems involved had to be thought through for the first time. After six year, this has culminated in a handbook on digital manuscript studies.

Meanwhile, he founded the online magazine 'The Digital Orientalist' to provide a space for discussions on using computing technology in Islamic Studies and related fields. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a project on late-medieval discussions on the imagination at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.