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Manuscripts of the Islamic World at Princeton University Library

Relevant Bibliography

Davidson, Garrett. “On the History of the Princeton University Library Collection of Islamic Manuscripts.” Journal of Islamic manuscripts. Vol. 13, no. 4 (2022): 421–479.

Gizbulaev, Magomed.“From the Caucasus to USA: Dagestani Islamic Manuscripts in Princeton University.”Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization. Vol. 4, no. 1 (2014): 31–44.

Gonzalez, Allyson. “A History of Histories—of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Exchange: Professor A.S. Yahuda and the International Trade of Antiquities, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, 1902–1944,” Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 18 (2020): 34-65.

Kemper, Michael; Amri Shikhsaidov; and Natalya Tagirova. “The Library of Imam Shamil.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 64, no. 1 (2002): 121–40. 

Schwartz, Kathryn A. “An Eastern Scholar's Engagement with the European Study of the East: Amin al-Madani and the Sixth Oriental Congress, Leiden, 1883,” in The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze, edited by Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad (New York: Routledge, 2019), 39–60.

Yazaki, Saeko. “The Islamic Manuscript Collection of A.S. Yahuda in Princeton University Library: A History of Acquisition.” In Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Vol I): Essays in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand, edited by Ali Ansari (London: Gingko, 2022), 176–89. 

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Hitti, Philip K. “The Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 3, no. 4 (1942): 116–22.

Schaefer, Karl L. “Report on the Islamic Manuscript Cataloguing Project at Princeton.” MELA Notes, no. 62 (1995): 52–54.

Manuscript Features

Joyce Bell, the project cataloger for the al-Madani Library Project, created a spreadsheet of various manuscript features found within the Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections. Each feature in this table has either an example record that shows the manuscript with that feature or a general search link that brings up all manuscripts with that feature. These features include tughras, colored paper, embossed watermarks, kabikaj, diagrams, safinah bindings, and many others.