M-Classi is a new digital tool in the field of knowledge organization. It is conceived primarily as a means of cataloging and interrogating the classifications of the sciences in Islam and those of the cultures with which the Islamicate world came into contact from antiquity to the pre-modern era. Practically, M-Classi is focused by priority on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish classifications, but for comparative purposes it also integrates taxonomies in languages such as Syriac, Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.  

M-Classi’s beta version (https://www.m-classi.eu/), created at UCLouvain in 2023, is available on simple request by contacting me at godefroid.decallatay@uclouvain.be.

A thorough presentation of M-Classi and its main functionalities will be given in: G. de Callataÿ – R. Baranx – H. Naets, ‘M-Classi, a New Digital Tool for the Classification of the Sciences, in Islam and Beyond’, in G. de Callataÿ – S. Moureau (ed.), Micrologus. Nature, Science and Medieval Societies 33 (2025). Special Issue: Power, Religion, and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in al-Andalus and Beyond (forthcoming).

Source : UCLouvain