Lorenz Nigst

Lorenz Nigst is Assistant Professor at AKU–ISMC Centre for Digital Humanities and manager of the OpenITI/KITAB corpus. He is a philologist of Arabic with a passion for language and interdisciplinary research. He has always been interested in trying to understand how people make sense of and talk about their worlds in their own terms. His main research interest has been on religious thought and movements, and he has worked on al-Maʿarrī, Ibn Taymiyya, al-Wāsiṭī, Islamic sainthood, and the Druze. He is fascinated by the collaborative creation of digital tools, but also by reflecting on their limits.