{"id":4591,"date":"2021-03-03T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:48:22","slug":"muslim-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2021\/03\/03\/muslim-manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 1v). al-Qur\u02bca\u0304n Manuscript, [Turkey?], [18th century], SCRC 447<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Special Collections Research Center<\/a> holds four Islamic manuscripts, recently digitized as part of the consortial project Manuscripts of the Muslim World<\/a>. The project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR<\/a>), and aims to digitize and make available online Islamic manuscripts and paintings from several institutions in the Philadelphia region and in New York. Materials digitized as part of the project include manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, along with examples of Coptic, Samaritan, Syriac, Turkish, and Berber.

The process for cataloging and digitizing Temple\u2019s four manuscripts was extremely collaborative. First, three Temple Libraries staff, Katy Rawdon, Kimberly Tully, and Matthew Ducmanas, attended an afternoon workshop, Introduction to Islamic Manuscripts for Librarians, held by Kelly Tuttle at the University of Pennsylvania, which covered the basics of understanding this wide-ranging and complex manuscript tradition.
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Prophet Muhammad’s mosque (f. 16v). Jazu\u0304li\u0304, Muh\u0323ammad ibn Sulayma\u0304n. Dala\u0304\u02bcil al-khayra\u0304t Manuscript, [Egypt], [1801], SCRC 441<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Katy created catalog records for the four manuscripts, with review by Kim and Matt. Due to COVID- and staffing-related issues, Temple was unable to digitize the volumes in house, but Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, offered their services. After digitization, Kelly reviewed the catalog records, comparing them to the digital images, and suggested corrections and additions before adding them to the Manuscripts of the Muslim World digital collection. Michael Carroll, Bibliographic Assistant III in Temple\u2019s Metadata & Digitization Services Department, added the images to Temple\u2019s own digital collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v). Anqira\u0304wi\u0304, Shuja\u0304\u02bb ibn Nu\u0304r Alla\u0304h, \u1e24all al-mushkila\u0304t Manuscript, [Turkey?], 1681, SCRC 448<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The result of this collaboration is that, despite the challenges brought by the past year, Temple\u2019s four Islamic manuscripts are now available online. These include an early 19th century manuscript copy of Muh\u0323ammad ibn Sulaym\u0101n al-Jaz\u016bl\u012b\u2019s famous collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muh\u0323ammad; an 18th century Qur\u02bca\u0304n, possibly Turkish; a 17th century Hanafi treatise on Islamic inheritance law titled H\u0323all al-mushkila\u0304t<\/em>, and a 19th century Arabic manuscript of a Muslim religious treatise on prayer titled Ha\u0304dha\u0304 kita\u0304b munyat al-mus\u0323alli\u0304.<\/em>

All images and descriptive metadata for manuscripts in the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project are released into the public domain with easily downloadable at high resolution via University of Pennsylvania Libraries\u2019 OPenn manuscript portal. SCRC\u2019s digitized manuscripts for the project have also been added to Temple Libraries\u2019 Digital Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2013Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services, SCRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Special Collections Research Center holds four Islamic manuscripts, recently digitized as part of the consortial project Manuscripts of the Muslim World. The project is funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and aims to digitize and make available online Islamic manuscripts and paintings from several institutions in the Philadelphia region and … Continue reading Muslim Manuscripts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,97,16,5,6],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-history-news","tag-muslim","tag-philadelphia-history","tag-religion","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}