The Audition Certificates Platform has emerged as a vital digital resource for scholars investigating Islamic social history and manuscript traditions. According to user statistics from Google Analytics, most traffic to the platform comes from users in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands and Algeria – reflecting its broad international reach. The annotated corpus of Arabic audition certificates has been utilised by researchers across disciplines and geographic regions.
ACP was used in the following recently published studies:
Aljoumani, Said/Benedikt Reier: "The Documentary Depth of Hadith Transmission: Audition Attendance Lists." Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta 32 (2024): 142-164.
.سعيد ضامن الجوماني: قيد مسموعات البلدان: الممارسات الأرشيفيَّة على المخطوطات. مجلة معهد المخطوطات العربيَّة بالقاهرة، مج 68، ج1 (مايو 2024م). 93-54
خالد كلاب، يوسف الأوزبكي: النبعة المقدسية في ترجمة شيخ المدرسة الإمام المُحدِّث ابن هلال المقدسيّ ت 765 هـ ، دار نقطة للنشر والتوزيع، ٢٠٢٤.
Güllü Yıldız: “el-İşâre ilâ sîreti’l-Mustafâ’nın Yeni Neşri Bağlamında Siyer Yazmalarındaki Hâşiyeler ve Semâ Kayıtları.” Hadis ve Siyer Araştırmaları, vol. IX (2), 2023.
Or Amir: “The Emergence of Gaza as a Provincial Intellectual Centre during the Mamluk Period.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 34.4 (2024): 655–672.
Koen Janssen, “Traveling Scholars and their Audition Certificates: An Interpretation of the Status of late Ayyubid Aleppo (624–658/1227–1260)” (MA thesis: Leiden University, 2024).
In addition, Monica Green (independent scholar) used ACP to support her research on the plague that struck the Levant in 748–9 (1348–9). Arjan Post (KU Leuven) relied on ACP to train his skills in deciphering the handwriting of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (d. 744/1343). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥasan ʿAbd Allāh employed it to trace the scholarly activities of the ḥadīth scholar Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad bin ʿAlī bin Aybak al-Sarūjī (d. 744/1343).
Next to academic publications, ACP has been featured in educational settings, including a lecture hosted by the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies on March 14, 2024:
طباق السَّمَاع، عناصرُها ودلالاتُ مصطلحاتِها وجانبٌ من توظيفاتِها
Notably, ACP’s data and structure have also advanced digital humanities methodologies. In the article "Building Sustainable Information Systems and Transformer Models on Demand" (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025), ACP is presented as a case study in implementing on-demand information systems (ISoD) and fine-tuning transformer models (FToD) within research data repositories. This work demonstrates how humanities research can benefit from sustainable digital infrastructures, enabling efficient data reuse and the development of tailored analytical tools. This includes technical studies such as:
Thomas Asselborn, et al. “Fine-tuning BERT Models on Demand for Information Systems Explained Using Training Data from Pre-modern Arabic.” In CHAI@KI (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3580, 2023).
Public and Non-Academic Engagement
Beyond academia, ACP has also resonated with a broader audience. A facebook post, for instance, highlights the discovery of a rare audition certificates through ACP. Such social media interactions underscore ACP’s capacity to promote public engagement with Arabic manuscript heritage.