Arab Islamic Book History

History of the book and authorship in the Arab Islamic contexts || تاريخ الكتاب والتأليف في السياقات العربية الإسلامية || Account by @YRHaidar

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Common abbreviations and terms found in manuscripts of the Islamic rational sciences.

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Four Family Libraries in Jerusalem

1. Al-Budayrī family
A prominent Shāfiʻī family of Jerusalem. Includes both Shāfiʻī and Mālikī legal texts, treatises on Sufism, and prayer books, with a substantial number of texts collected from North Africa. Primarily in Arabic. Est. 1767 CE

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The European Qurʾān

Encounters with the Holy Text of Islam from the Ninth to the Twentieth Century

What role does the Holy Scripture of Islam, the Qurʾān, play in the history of European thought?

Forthcoming by De Gruyter (Oct. 7, 2024)

https://t.co/V7OXwBwhCx

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Arabic Firsts

The first to write ‘from so-and-so to so-and-so’ was Qus bin Sa‘ida (d. c. 600 CE)

The first to write at the end of a kitāb ‘written by so-and-so’ was Ubayy ibn Ka‘b (d. 649)

From Suyūtī’s al-Wasā’il (p. 131)

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يسر مكتبة الموصل للتراث أن تعلن للراغبين بزيارة المكتبة عن إمكانية الحجز عبر الموقع الإلكتروني - نرحب بالزوار الكرام للاطلاع على خزانة الكتب والمقتنيات النادرة واللقاء بالفريق في مقهى المكتبة

https://t.co/HJmkXIchIq

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Bibliothèque Orientale

based on an abridged French translation of Ḥājjī Khalīfa’s (aka Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657) Kashf al-Zunūn by his contemporary French orientalist Barthélemy d'Herbelot (1625-1695).

Published in 1697

[open access]

https://t.co/3vTSjFjLg5

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Abdullah al‑Rashidi, MHL’s Lead Librarian, speaking in our recent Old Mosul Immersion Program.

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Between May 1948 and the end of February 1949, the staff of the National Library of Israel and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem confiscated over 30,000 books and manuscripts that had been left behind by the Palestinian residents of western Jerusalem.

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Arabic-Persian-Greek-Serbian conversation textbook

Created during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror.

The original text of the textbook is in Arabic. Each Arabic (black) line is followed by its translation into Persian (red), Greek (green) and Serbian (orange).

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Digitized manuscripts from the Great Omari Mosque in #Gaza — one of the most important and oldest national library and archives centres in #Palestine

211 manuscripts
25957 images

[open access]

https://t.co/msruE6v3As

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MHL was honored to host students from CIS College for an immersion in Mosul’s history and heritage. The program included a talk on the city’s cultural legacy and its revival, followed by a historic walk through Old Mosul, and a glimpse into rare items from our collections.

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This evening’s view of the Mosul Heritage Library and the historic Al‑Hadba Minaret in Mosul’s Old City.

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Phoenix library - a new cultural initiative rises from the ashes in Gaza

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Phoenix library - a new cultural initiative rises from the ashes in Gaza

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

The first library to be built during the genocide in Gaza.

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The Mosul Heritage Library.

A new cultural landmark in the heart of Old Mosul.

Follow our page for major updates soon.

مكتبة الموصل للتراث
من قلب الموصل القديمة
قريباً

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Source: https://t.co/KQEdqyLHnc

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Gaza’s Libraries: A Chronicle of Erasure

Book by book, shelf by shelf—centuries of Gaza’s memory are being reduced to ash.

🧵Scroll down for a devastating inventory of destruction: each post documents a library or museum erased:

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Shahwan Museum: Damaged. Reported: Dec 6, 2023 🔗 Source: Palestinian Ministry of Culture.