Sarah Bowen Savant is a Professor of History and founding director of the Aga Khan University’s Centre for Digital Humanities. Her books include The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge University Press, 2013); as editor, Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2014); as translator (with Peter Webb), The Excellence of the Arabs. A Translation of Ibn Qutaybah’s Faḍl al-ʿArab wa l-tanbīh ʿalā ʿulūmihā (Library of Arabic Literature, 2017), plus other edited volumes, book chapters, articles, and data sets (available via Zenodo).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: FoundationsPART I: DISTANT READING1. Reading with a Reuse Lens2. Writerly PracticesPART II: FORENSIC READING3. Al-Ṭabarī’s Memory Room4. Ibn ʿAsākir, the CollectorConclusion: A Call to Read IntertextuallyEpilogueAppendicesAppendix 1: MethodsAppendix 2: Citation Rating ScaleAppendix 3: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Top Five Direct InformantsBibliographyIndex

Sarah Bowen Savant is a Professor of History and founding director of the Aga Khan University’s Centre for Digital Humanities. Her books include The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge University Press, 2013); as editor, Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2014); as translator (with Peter Webb), The Excellence of the Arabs. A Translation of Ibn Qutaybah’s Faḍl al-ʿArab wa l-tanbīh ʿalā ʿulūmihā (Library of Arabic Literature, 2017), plus other edited volumes, book chapters, articles, and data sets (available via Zenodo).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: FoundationsPART I: DISTANT READING1. Reading with a Reuse Lens2. Writerly PracticesPART II: FORENSIC READING3. Al-Ṭabarī’s Memory Room4. Ibn ʿAsākir, the CollectorConclusion: A Call to Read IntertextuallyEpilogueAppendicesAppendix 1: MethodsAppendix 2: Citation Rating ScaleAppendix 3: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Top Five Direct InformantsBibliographyIndex

Sarah Bowen Savant is a Professor of History and founding director of the Aga Khan University’s Centre for Digital Humanities. Her books include The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge University Press, 2013); as editor, Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2014); as translator (with Peter Webb), The Excellence of the Arabs. A Translation of Ibn Qutaybah’s Faḍl al-ʿArab wa l-tanbīh ʿalā ʿulūmihā (Library of Arabic Literature, 2017), plus other edited volumes, book chapters, articles, and data sets (available via Zenodo).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: FoundationsPART I: DISTANT READING1. Reading with a Reuse Lens2. Writerly PracticesPART II: FORENSIC READING3. Al-Ṭabarī’s Memory Room4. Ibn ʿAsākir, the CollectorConclusion: A Call to Read IntertextuallyEpilogueAppendicesAppendix 1: MethodsAppendix 2: Citation Rating ScaleAppendix 3: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Top Five Direct InformantsBibliographyIndex