Digital Humanities · Quantitative Linguistics · Arabic Rhetoric
DOI: 10.64393/balagha
The BALAGHA Score Project is a unified research ecosystem for Arabic rhetoric ("al-balāgha"), combining an open encyclopedia, corpus resources, computational tools, a knowledge base, and metrics for rhetorical analysis.
Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric (concepts, devices, examples).
Wikibase knowledge graph for devices, scholars, sources.
Methodology and discussion of density as a quantitative metric.
An international conference where the concept of Rhetorical Density, and the BALAGHA Score which is derived from it, were introduced.
A conference organised by SOAS University of London and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, where the concept of Rhetorical Density, and the BALAGHA Score which is derived from it, were introduced.
The Corpus Navigator is a word position indexer tool for corpus annotations of textual content. This tool implements standardized rules for numbering words in any text, supporting multiple languages and writing systems. It allows text annotators to reliably and consistently identify word positions within texts.
The Arabic Rhetorical Device Identifier is a custom GPT and AI system prompt package to assist in identifying Arabic rhetorical devices, in classical and contemporary Arabic texts. It is based on the Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy v0.1.1. Please view the full README.md file for usage notes and instructions.
BalaghaID app is an interactive app for identifying Arabic rhetorical devices through guided decision-making. The system implements a structured decision tree derived from the Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy, guiding users step by step through diagnostic questions that progressively narrow down the rhetorical phenomenon under analysis.
The Arabic Word Tokenisation Scheme is a formal set of rules for consistently segmenting Arabic text into meaningful word units, optimised for the calculation of the BALAGHA Score — a quantitative metric of rhetorical density in both classical and contemporary Arabic texts.
Consisting of 95 Arabic rhetorical devices, their definitions, taxonomy, classification, relationships, and usage examples, the Arabic Rhetorical Device Taxonomy is a permanent, shareable, and citable resource which can be used by anyone working in the field of Arabic rhetoric.
