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 # Islamicate World 2.0 Homework and Group Projects
 
-Universities of Maryland and Leipzig students from the departments of Digital Humanities and Arabic/Islamic studies joining their awesome superpowers to do cool stuff with corpus linguistical methods. To boldly go where no student of Arabic has gone before!
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-[![Stories in Ready](https://badge.waffle.io/sixtyfive/hw.png?label=ready&title=Al-Mufassirun tasks-in-progress)](http://waffle.io/sixtyfive/hw)
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-Hey, al-Mutakhabbirun, wanna join [Waffle](waffle.io) and get a cool badge like the one above, too? :)
+Universities of Maryland and Leipzig students from the departments of Digital Humanities and Arabic/Islamic studies joined forces to do cool stuff with corpus linguistical methods during the winter semester of 2016/17. This repository documents progress and outcome of the class. Further information is available at [the course website](http://islamicate-dh.github.io/IW2Course_2016/).