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Yusuf Celik

@suufy

Prof Digital Humanities & Islam (VU Amst.). Former postdoc at Harvard Law School and Utrecht University. Doctor in Qur’an hermeneutics (University of Edinburgh)

Joined November 2009
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My book is out. brill.com/display/title/6422…
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تنزيل الإصدار الرسمي الأول للمكتبة الشاملة على نظام الماك shamela.ws/page/download رابط مباشر archive.org/download/shamela…
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Join us in Amsterdam.
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Forthcoming Series: Digital Humanities in Islamic Studies brill.com/page/forthcoming_d…
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Tagging my fellow editors: @AliAghaei_qhs and @tubi_or_not (who, I embarrassingly did not know, also use X).
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Araştırma Merkezi, Osmanlı hukuk tarihinin temel kaynaklarından fetva mecmualarını dijital ortama taşıyor. 16–20. yüzyıllar arasına ait 42 fetva mecmuası transkripsiyon–mukabele–redaksiyon süreçlerinden geçirilerek yapay zekâ destekli arama sunan platformda erişime açılacak.
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📢| Join us at the XI İSAR Summer School! Islamic Law in Action: Reading Islamic Court Records with Dr. Samy Ayoub (University of Texas at Austin) 🗓️ 21–25 July 2025 🕙 Daily | 10:00–13:00 📍Üsküdar, Istanbul forms.gle/jpmgBtUWzzYyBCy37
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What to make of a Muslim saint who falls head over heels with a Christian girl and pursues her? I explore this in my latest article. degruyterbrill.com/document/…
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My VENI (NWO) funded project is live! Legacy of Q: Empowering Historical Inquiry Into Early Jewish-Islamic Relations Through AI. It is still a work-in-progress. Want to know more, sign up for the newsletter! legacyofq.com
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Trouw@trouw19 Jul 2024
Onderzoeker Yusuf Çelik stuitte bij toeval op verhalen van joden die in de islamitische gemeenschap werden opgenomen. Met kunstmatige intelligentie gaat hij hun rol voor de ontwikkeling van de vroege islam na. trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/j…
De eerste generaties moslims kregen koranuitleg van een onverwachte partij: joden

De eerste generaties moslims kregen koranuitleg van een onverwachte partij: joden

Onderzoeker Yusuf Çelik stuitte bij toeval op verhalen van joden die in de islamitische gemeenschap werden opgenomen. Met kunstmatige intelligentie gaat hij hun rol voor de ontwikkeling van de vroege...

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Alhamdulillah/Laus deo! I am thrilled to announce that I have secured the Veni grant. Leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, I will explore and map the interactions between early Jewish converts and the Islamic community.
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ETCBC@etcbc_vu26 Apr 2024
Dr. Yusuf Çelik of @etcbc_vu @VU_FRT recently led a workshop on artificial intelligence in humanities research at @NOSTERNL This event attracted early career researchers from various Dutch universities. Wonderful event! @suufy
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ETCBC@etcbc_vu8 Apr 2024
Exicted to start this new @VUamsterdam Connected World project with @PeursenWTvan @suufy and Jan Jorrit Hasselaar (@VU_FRT) @sbhulai (@VU_Science) and Meike Morren (@VU_SBE) @networkinstvu vu.nl/en/news/2024/connected…
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ETCBC@etcbc_vu27 Oct 2023
Exciting second #ETCBCsocialmedia2023 @networkinstvu @VU_FRT hackathon about all the complexities in the detection and analysis of religious language and social media with @suufy @MirandaKlaver @PeursenWTvan @BGaraiko @J_Froeh and others
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The Courts and Canons project is imho one of the more ambitious DH projects out there in the field of Islamic legal studies.
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How are scholars using our data science tools to answer debates in the field? Prof. Intisar Rabb & Dr. Yusuf Celik use our text analytics tool to explore debates over how & why the Mecelle Drafting Committee borrowed 99 legal canons to reform Ottoman law. islamiclaw.blog/2022/03/16/w…
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Join our hackathons! etcbc.nl/news/hackathons/
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ETCBC@etcbc_vu26 Sep 2023
Wonderful volume on "Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text" edited by Elizabeth Robar and William Ross with contribution on Computational Linguistic Analysis of the Bible by @PeursenWTvan @etcbc_vu @VU_FRT Excellent work done by @OpenBookPublish openbookpublishers.com/books…

Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text

This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of...

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As I delve into the process of querying Islamic texts through natural language, my experiments have yielded some delightful results. The question "Where is God?" is answered by AI as "upon the image of Adam" ('على صورة آدم').
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Stel, kunstmatige intelligentie creëert een wezen sterker en slimmer dan de mens, wat voor waarde heeft de mens dan nog voor God? Trouw vraagt het VU FRT-docent digital humanities en islam @suufy: trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/i…
Is de mens nog speciaal voor God, als er een AI-superwezen komt?

Is de mens nog speciaal voor God, als er een AI-superwezen komt?

Stel dat kunstmatige intelligentie een wezen creëert dat sterker en slimmer is dan de mens, wat voor waarde heeft de mens dan nog voor God? Over die vraag buigt religiewetenschapper en docent digital...

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My article is out (open access). It attempts at presenting a take on Artificial Superintelligence and human distinctiveness from an Islamic worldview. link.springer.com/article/10…
Answering Divine Love: Human Distinctiveness in the Light of Islam and Artificial Superintelligence

Answering Divine Love: Human Distinctiveness in the Light of Islam and Artificial Superintelligence

Sophia - In the Qur’an, human distinctiveness was first questioned by angels. These established denizens of the cosmos could not understand why God would create a seemingly pernicious human...

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Today marks 50 years since Imam Ibn 'Ashur passed away. Here we ask a question which will be answered in a special short film this week. Please subscribe to @IbnAshurCentre on YouTube to be the first to see the whole thing. youtube.com/@IbnAshur
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