Le projet BADR de l’Université de Strasbourg, soutenu par l’IFI (programme « Islamologie d’Excellence » est à l’affiche du site The digital Orientalist, à travers un article d’Adrien de Jarmy (Unistra) and Clarck Junior Membourou Moimecheme (Sorbonne Nouvelle) :

The BADR Project, “Writing and Memory of the Battle of Badr (7th–21st c.)”, examines the genesis, transmission, and sociopolitical uses of narratives about the Battle of Badr (2/624) from their earliest attestations to contemporary reinterpretations. It explores how these narratives were written, reshaped, and mobilized as a repertoire of action and legitimation in religious, legal, and military contexts throughout the history of the Islamic world.

The project unfolds in two complementary parts. The first aims to retrace, at multiple scales, the evolution of Arabic narratives of the Battle of Badr up to the 13th century, when Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (d. 734/1334) produced a decisive synthesis. A TEI-XML encoding standard was designed for premodern Arabic texts following the logic of hadith literature – that is, texts composed of a main narrative (matn) associated with a chain of transmission (isnād). This model makes it possible to identify and structure the named entities (persons, places, objects) contained in the corpus, before integrating them into a relational database intended to generate visualizations and dynamic analyses.

The second focuses on the  memories and reinterpretations of the Battle of Badr from the 13th to 21st century. These questions were at the heart of the international conference held at the University of Strasbourg on 13–14 November 2025, which gathered scholars working on the long afterlives of Badr in the fields of history, theology, literature, and the social sciences. A collective volume synthesizing the two parts of the project is expected to be published in 2027 […]

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The BADR Project (7th–21st c.) – A TEI-Based Approach to Premodern Islamic Texts