I specialize in editing Christian Arabic literature and preserving the Arabic manuscript heritage. In collaboration with computer scientists, I develop digital tools to automate the critical editing process, with a focus on enhancing accessibility and research efficiency. My work spans the entire editorial pipeline, from transcribing manuscripts and collating textual variants to lemmatizing and creating comprehensive dictionaries. I aim to bridge traditional philological methods with digital solutions by integrating technologies such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and text parsing tools.
h.ibrahim@uni-frankfurt.de ORCID
Areas of Interest
- Christian Arabic literature and manuscript heritage
- Critical editions of Arabic theological, hagiographical, and historical texts
- Greek–Arabic translation traditions and the transmission of Byzantine Christian literature
- Digital Humanities and computational philology
- Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Manuscript transcription, textual collation, lemmatization, and lexicography
- Digital databases, TEI/XML, and automated editorial workflows
Positions
Since 2026
Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Since 2023
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Tübingen, Germany.
2023–2026
Junior Researcher, ERC Project TYPARABIC.
2018–2023
Associate Researcher, CEDRAC, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon.
2016–2023
Lecturer / Assistant Professor / Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Human Arts and Sciences, Lebanese University.
2016–2018
Postdoctoral Studies, University of Balamand. Research on the Arabic translation of the eleventh-century Synaxarion, including introduction and critical edition.
2018
Postdoctoral Studies, University of Balamand. Database structure for the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Arabica.
2011–2015
Arabic Language Teacher and Translation Consultant, LCI – France Telecom.
2008
Manuscript Digitization, HMML Project, University of Balamand.
Education
2016
PhD in History, specializing in History of Religions and Religious Anthropology, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
Thesis: Jean Damascène arabe. Édition des deux traités Contre les Nestoriens.
Supervisor: Paul Gehin.
2011
Master’s Degree in Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
Dissertation: Jean Damascène arabe. Contre les Nestoriens 2.
2011
Master’s Degree in Theology, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint Serge, Paris.
Dissertation: L’allégorie et ses incidences sur la pédagogie chez Origène (IIe–IIIe s.).
2008
Bachelor’s Degree in Theology, University of Balamand, Lebanon.
2017
Diploma in Music, Hellenic Conservatory of Music & Arts.
