Islamic Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts
HMML’s growing Islamic manuscript holdings represent a range of Islamic cultures, including the West African tradition centered in Timbuktu (Mali), Harar in Ethiopia, the major family libraries of Jerusalem, the Zaydi tradition of Yemen, as well as manuscripts located in Gaza, Persian manuscripts from Mughal India, and the Library of Congress. It also includes Islamic manuscripts located in Southeast Asia, hosted in partnership with the DREAMSEA Project.
Beginning in 2013, HMML partnered with SAVAMA-DCI (Sauvegarde et Valorisation des Manuscrits pour la Défense de la Culture Islamique) in Bamako, Mali, to digitize the manuscripts evacuated from Timbuktu. HMML has since expanded the project to libraries that remained in Timbuktu and to Mali's other center of Islamic culture, Djenné.
Highlights
- Libraries of Timbuktu: Aboubacar Ben Said Library (7,600 items), Abdoulahi ben Abdourahamane Family Library (12,700 items), Attaher Mouaz Family Library (39,000 items), Mamma Haidara Library (37,500 items), Bibliothèque de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti, Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari, and over 20 others (Search Repositories for ‘SAV’ or 'ELIT')
- Djenné Manuscript Library, Djenné: 150 local family collections of Quranic material, texts on religion, grammar, history, literature, Sufi mysticism, and magic
- Muslim family collections in Jerusalem: Budeiry Family Library (1,300 items); Khalidiyya Library (1,680 items), Dar Issaf Nashashibi Library (750 items), and al-Zāwiyah al-Uzbakīyah (181 items)
- Zaydi Manuscript Tradition Project: manuscripts from Yemen as well as European and North American collections, made available through the project at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
- Sherif Harar City Museum, Harar, Ethiopia: digital copies of hundreds of manuscripts gathered from families and shrines in this historic center of Islam, deposited by Abdullahi Ali Sherif, founder of the museum
- Great Omari Mosque, Gaza City, Gaza: approximately 250 manuscripts on Islamic jurisprudence, Qur’ans, Quranic texts, works of philosophy, theology, poetry, Sufism, Arabic language, education, medicine, astronomy, history, and geography
- Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e Urdu Pakistan, Karachi: approximately 2,000 manuscripts on Urdu literature and language, Qur'ans, epic poetry, Sufi treatises, historiographical works, autobiographies, and dictionaries in Urdu, Persian, and Arabic
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Countries
Ethiopia, Gaza, India, Jerusalem, Mali, Pakistan, Yemen, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Islamic manuscripts are also found throughout the Western European, Eastern Christian, and Malta collections) -
Date Range
7th-21st century -
Languages
Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Bambara, Fulfulde, Javanese, Harari, Oromo, and Urdu -
Curator
Dr. Josh Mugler, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts Stories
- Nasheeds from West Africa: Uniting Texts and Sound
- Where We’re Working: Lucknow
- The Legacy of Mūrisṭus’ Hydraulic and Pneumatic Pipe Organs in the Early 20th-Century Arabic Literary Culture
- Deadly snakes and remedies against their venomous bites in the handy charts of a copy of the “Kitāb al-diryāq” (Book on antidotes)
- Zaydī Manuscripts
- See more
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