الحجة

🔵 The Grand Opening of the Gazi Husrev Bey Library in Sarajevo.
The new contemporary building of the Gazi Husrev Bey Library opened yesterday with the Grand Ceremony in Sarajevo.
The ceremony was attended by many guests from political, scientific, cultural and public life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as by delegates of the State of Qatar, which provided 13 million KM (app. 9 million US $) to help build this contemporary building in the heart of the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Among distinguished guests who attended the ceremony were Qatar's Waqf Minister Gajs bin Mubarek el-Kuwari, Reisu-l-ulema IC in BiH Husein ef. Kavazović, Member of the BiH Presidency Bakir Izetbegović, Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH Nermin Nikšić, Head of EU Delegation to BiH and EU Special Representative Peter Sorensen and High Representative Valentin Inzko.

The Gazi Husrev Bey Library in Sarajevo, founded in 1537, represents one of the oldest cultural institutions in Europe. Its founder was the Ottoman governor Gazi Husrev Bey, of Bosnian origin, who besides the library built the central Sarajevo mosque known as the Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque and the Gazi Husrev Bey Madrasa, as well as many other institutions.

The library has been, for centuries, located in the building of the Madrasa, and for the past hundred years has often changed locations, none of them appropriate for the preservation of the large number of manuscripts. Given that the library was particularly vulnerable in the 90s, during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina by Serbia and Montenegro, the idea of having a dedicated building for its accommodation became essential.

Apart from accommodation of books and manuscripts, the library constitutes of many spaces like a large congress room, rooms for research and reading, restoration laboratories and a museum, with hi-tech equipment.

Gazi Husrev Bey Library is one of the largest libraries of oriental manuscripts in Europe and the library with the largest collection of Ottoman manuscripts outside of Turkey. The library has over 10,000 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Turkish language as well as manuscripts written in Bosnian language, with Arabic script. Especially valuable is its art collection, which contains in addition to illuminated manuscripts and a collection of rugs also clothes from the Ottoman period, works in metal and wood as well as other artefacts.

Prior to the Grand Opening of the Gazi Husrev Bey Library the special exhibition of some of the manuscripts was shown to the public. We are presenting some of them.

Some of the Manuscripts from the Gazi Husrev Bey Library in Sarajevo👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
The School of Historical Studies
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
4-6 pm, White-Levy-Room
Devin J. Stewart
(Emory College of Arts and Sciences)
"The Transmission of Knowledge in Abbasid Iraq: Problems in the Interpretation of the “Catalogue” of Ibn al-Nadim"
The Fihrist of professional bookseller Ibn al-Nadim (d. 990 CE) is a catalogue of books—a bibliography of Arabic works in all fields of science and genres of writing, providing to posterity the equivalent of the card catalogue of the libraries of Baghdad in the late tenth century. At once a crucial source for the historical development of the Islamic science over the previous three centuries and the single most important record of the Abbasid translation movement that facilitated the transmission of scientific knowledge from Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit into Arabic, the Fihrist remains an enigmatic text. Despite concentrated study of the Fihrist since the mid-nineteenth century, editions by Gustav Flügel in 1871-72, Rida Tajaddud in 1971, and Ayman Fu’ad Sayyid in 2009 and 2014, and a complete English translation by Bayard Dodge in 1970, many problems remain in the establishment of the text, the restoration of lacuna, and the interpretation of hundreds of titles, proper names, and enigmatic entries. After an overview of the historical investigation of Ibn al-Nadim and his work, this lecture explores outstanding problems in interpretation of the work, including in particular his discussions of the world’s scripts and Greek scientific patrimony.

The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism

ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century

The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qur'an in the First Centuries AH provides a new annotated edition of the two layers of the "Sanaa Palimpsest," one of the oldest Qur'an manuscripts yet discovered. It features a critical introduction that offers new hypotheses concerning the transmission of the Qur'an during the first centuries of Islam. The palimpsest contains two superimposed Qur'anic texts within two layers of writing, on thirty-eight leaves of parchment collectively numbered MS 01.27-1 in the Dar al-Makhtutat, Sanaa, Yemen. The palimpsest's lower text, which has been dated to the first century of Islam (seventh century CE), was subsequently erased and the parchment was later reused for writing another Qur'anic text, which remains visible in natural light. This upper text is thought to date from the second century of Islam (eighth century CE). The two layers were imaged in 2007 by a French-Italian mission.

The Orient in Spain

Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism

Series: 

Numen Book Series, Volume: 142

Editor: Consuelo López-Morillas

Authors: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriquez and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wish to respect Arabic cultural traditions, and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration into “Old Christian” society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain, in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic, was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed. The authors consider th

دیوان عبد الواسع الجبلی

Other Titles:

Divān-i ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ al-Jabalī

Shelfmark:

Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 19

Holding Institution:

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Language:

Persian

Catalogue Description:

Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Author:

Jabalī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ ibn ʻAbd al-Jāmiʻ, d. 1160

Decoration:

Miniatures, borders, unwan.

Materials:

paper

Extent:

205 ff.

Hand:

Very clear and beautiful Nastaʻlīq.

Binding:

Lacquered boards with floral decoration.

Record Origin:

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.

مجالس العشّاق

Other Titles:

Majālis al-ʻushshāq

Shelfmark:

Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 24

Holding Institution:

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Date Statement:

October-November 1552

Description:

An illustrated copy of Gāzurgāhī's Majālis al-ʻushshāq.

Language:

Persian

Catalogue Description:

Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Author:

Gāzurgāhī, Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl, fl. 15th century

Scribe:

Farīd al-Kātib

Contents:

Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl Gāzurgāhī, Majālis al-ʻushshāq (ff. 1a-197a).

Decoration:

Illustrated with 74 miniature paintings.

Extent:

ff. 4 + 197 + 4.

Hand:

Excellent Nastaʻlīq.

Binding:

Binding with flowers and arabesques, rich in gold.

Record Origin:

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.

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بعضی قسمت های کتاب واقعا خواندنی ست، نویسنده ابن رشد را جزء سنت منطق دانان عربی نویس نشمرده، اما اگر ابن رشد را در نظر نگیریم، بیشترین سهم در انتقال فرهنگ منطقی مسلمانان بر عهده کتاب مقاصد الفلاسفه غزالی است:

The Latin logicians of the thirteenth century had quite a good grasp of Arabic logic. The major source for this knowledge was the Maq¯asid al-fal¯asifa (‘The Meaning of the Philosophers’) by Ab¯uH¯ amid Muhammad Al-Ghaz¯al¯i

کار تا جایی پیش می رود که کتاب مقاصد الفلاسفه غزالی کتاب درسی آن روزگاران میشود، نویسنده علت این محبوبیت کتاب را در این می بیند که غزالی به موضوعات جنجالی و داغ پرداخته!(مثل تقسیم علوم، حدوث و قدم و..):

The Latin translation of the Maq¯asid was very much read and became, at least in the thirteenth century, the basic text from which the Latin authors gained their knowledge of Arabic philosophy. The reason it became so much read was because it mentions some of the ‘hot’ topics of the period, for example the divisions of the sciences, the distinction between essence and existence, the eternity of the world, the number of souls etc.

ترجمه عبری قانون ابن سینا
طب

Title:
[Sefer ha-Ḳanon] ... [etc.] [manuscript].

Abstract:
Books 1-3 and the beginning of Book 4 of Avicenna's 11th-century comprehensive medical work, translated into Hebrew from Arabic. At the end of the volume is Maimonides's 12th-century treatise on poisons, a much shorter work, which is also lacking the end of the text and was also translated from Hebrew to Arabic, by Mosheh Ibn Tibon. Marginal notes in Hebrew, with at least one in Italian (f. 44v).

Description:
131 leaves : paper; 195 x 126 (126 x 95) mm. bound to 204 x 148 mm

The Orient in Spain

Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism

Series: 

Numen Book Series, Volume: 142

Editor: Consuelo López-Morillas

Authors: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriquez and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wish to respect Arabic cultural traditions, and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration into “Old Christian” society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain, in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic, was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed. The authors consider th

This small illuminated codex contains a famous poem written in honor of the Prophet Muhammad and commonly known as Qasyda al-Burda (Poem of the Cloak); author of the poem Sharaf al-Din Muhammad al-Busiri (died in 694 AH calendar [1294 A.D.]). This manuscript was written in various fonts, most likely in Iran, by the scribe Habib Allah ibn Dust Mohammed al-Hvarizmhi in the XI century according to the Hijri calendar (XVII century according to the Gregorian calendar).

رسمة للكعبة المشرّفة من مخطوطة "هفت اورنگ" لنورالدین عبدالرحمن جامي،الشاعر الصوفي الإيراني (817 - 898هـ)
يظهر في هذه الرسمة الإمام زين العابدين علي بن الحسين (صلوات الله عليهما) واقفا أمام الكعبة المشرّفة
فيها شعر باللغة الفارسية بعنوان "سلسة الذهب"
المخطوطة محفوظة في Bodleian Library بريطانيا تحت الرقم MS. Elliott 149

Illustration of the holy Kaʾba in "Haft Aurang" of Mullā Ǧāmī (1414 - 1492), the sūfī iranian poet.
Imām Zainulʾābedīn ʾĀlī bin Al Ḥussein (peace be upon them) appears veiled and haloed in front of the holy Kaʾba. This leaf contains a poem with the title " Silsilat Al Ḏahab".
The whole manuscript is reserved in the Bodleian Library under reference number MS. Elliott 149.
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مركز الحر العاملي
Markaz al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmelī

Title
Almagest (in the recension of Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī)
Language
Arabic
Author
Ptolemy
Description
The greatest influence on the development of Arabic astronomy (نجوم، ریاضیات) was the Almagest of
Ptolemy (2nd century). The Almagest was translated several times into Arabic in the 9th
century, and in the ensuing centuries attracted countless commentaries &c.
Collection
Arabic Manuscripts and Maps
Holding Institution
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

دیوان عبد الواسع الجبلی

Other Titles:

Divān-i ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ al-Jabalī

Shelfmark:

Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 19

Holding Institution:

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Language:

Persian

Catalogue Description:

Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Author:

Jabalī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ ibn ʻAbd al-Jāmiʻ, d. 1160

Decoration:

Miniatures, borders, unwan.

Materials:

paper

Extent:

205 ff.

Hand:

Very clear and beautiful Nastaʻlīq.

Binding:

Lacquered boards with floral decoration.

Record Origin:

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.

مجالس العشّاق

Other Titles:

Majālis al-ʻushshāq

Shelfmark:

Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 24

Holding Institution:

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Date Statement:

October-November 1552

Description:

An illustrated copy of Gāzurgāhī's Majālis al-ʻushshāq.

Language:

Persian

Catalogue Description:

Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Author:

Gāzurgāhī, Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl, fl. 15th century

Scribe:

Farīd al-Kātib

Contents:

Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʻīl Gāzurgāhī, Majālis al-ʻushshāq (ff. 1a-197a).

Decoration:

Illustrated with 74 miniature paintings.

Extent:

ff. 4 + 197 + 4.

Hand:

Excellent Nastaʻlīq.

Binding:

Binding with flowers and arabesques, rich in gold.

Record Origin:

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.