Current Projects and Online Resources

China, Law and Development (CLD)

The CLD project analyses the nature of order underlying Chinese globalization, including China’s engagement with international law and the legal and regulatory regimes of host states, particularly in emerging economies

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era

Griffith Institute Archive

The Griffith Institute Archive houses a diverse and world-renowned collection which encompasses the wealth of Ancient Egypt

The History of the Jewish Book in the Islamicate World

The History of the Jewish Book in the Islamicate World project undertakes for the first time a comprehensive and multifaceted study of Jewish books of the Islamicate world

Invisible East – On the Trails of Lapis

The Invisible East programme brings the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of historical research by studying local texts

Josephus Project

Flavius Josephus has been crucial in the formation of modern Jewish identity. This project explores how Jews since the middle of the 18th century have used and recreated his writings

Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India (LINGUINDIC)

The LINGUINDIC project will investigate the under-researched wealth of the ancient Indian linguistic tradition with a modern linguistic perspective

Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre

For the Study of the History, Languages, and Cultures of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)

The OEB contains the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature and is updated nearly every day

Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP)

QuCIP will deliver the first historical-critical commentary on a sizable portion of the Qur’an in English

TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800

This project will build the first digital archive of court drama scripts and related foreign records, and aims to establish links among the textual worlds of Chinese court drama

Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs, and Paintings

The Topographical Bibliography provides a fundamental, universally recognised point of departure for research on Egyptian artefacts and sites