Maqām Al Sayyidah Zaynab: HMML Repository
Maqām al-Sayyidah Zaynab
The Sayyidah Zaynab Shrine is a Twelver Shīʻī mosque and shrine located in Damascus, Syria. Its manuscript collection includes waqfīyah (endowment) documents, a family tree, and land deeds that have been in the possession of the Mourtada (Murtaḍá) family since the inception of the shrine, for more than 764 years.
- Collection
- Islamic
- Country
- Syria
- City
- Damascus
- Repository
- Maqām al-Sayyidah Zaynab
- Project Codes
- MSZ
- Type
- Digital
- Date Preserved
- 2026
- Languages
- Arabic, Turkish (Ottoman)
- Preservation Status
- In progress
- Cataloging Status
- Not started