The Thesaurus d’Épigraphie Islamique was recently updated and now includes

• Issue No. 10: Inscriptions from South-East Asia (Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)

It is now that much easier to find something like the Arabic stela excavated at Phnom Bakeng, probably carved by a local craftsman unfamiliar with the Arabic alphabet!

Arabic Stela - Phnom Bakheng

Access to the searchable database is free once you’ve created an account. The new material completes content already in the database:

• No. 1: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya
• No. 2: Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain)
• No. 3: Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan)
• Nos. 4 and 5: Egypt
• No. 6: Indian world (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives)
• Nos. 7-9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Iraq, Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, France)