@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean I would count my own work, especially my Grace of God article, to be part of that trend.
But I would also say the ways the potential ways that the Isnad-cum-matn analysis can and is being applied now even compared to its pioneers is a major advance.

@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean Sadeghi's work, clearly too.
But, for example, Reynold's work on doublets. That is work that you *can* do manually, but it's obviously just insanely easier and therefore more readily done and those kinds of questions get asked because of it.

@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean What's that guy called who on the basis of some statistical relaities of family trees calculated the number of people that lived in Mecca.
Anyone working on social network analysis stuff, text reuse research like the KITAB project...

@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean But even really basic stuff, like Al-Jallad's work on pre-Islamic religious landscape. The stats and technique are fairly low tech, but seeing that structure in how inscriptional formulae work and what that tells us is ONLY possible with smart database searching.

@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean But even stuff like Shamela just transforms the way everyone in the field works (or at least it should), the kind of data we have at our fingertips etc. There's galaxy brain applications of this, like Sidky's work and there's simple applications, but all are transformative.