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Handwritten works in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Ottoman Turkish from libraries around the world — gathered in one place, arranged by subject and author, and readable page by page right here.
18773manuscripts
7libraries
4languages
Persian
Hilye mounted on a wooden panel
dihya salim al-fahim · Library of Congress · 1718
Arabic
Anonymous Arabic and Persian poetic verses
Library of Congress
Arabic
[Qurʼān]
Library of Congress · 1695
Arabic
Bal'ami's Persian translation of al-Tabari's "Ta'rikh"
Library of Congress · 12??
Persian
Insha'
mir kalan · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Şerh-i Gülistân
bosnavı̂ sudi · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 13??
Arabic
Incomplete treatise on Shīʻah apologetics and the imams
Library of Congress · 1723
Persian
[Anonymous Islamic treatise on creation in Persian]
Library of Congress · 1877
Arabic
[Unidentified Persian manuscript, by Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān]
kirmānī, muḥammad raḥīm khān · Library of Congress · 18??
Arabic
[Qurʼān]
nayrīzī, aḥmad · Library of Congress · 1708
Arabic
Qurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī
Library of Congress · 1877
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 10??
Persian
Ṣanāyiʻ-i asṭurlāb
qāʼinī, qāsim ʻalī · Library of Congress · 1849
Arabic
Munājāt
vahīd ḥusaynī; ʻalī ibn abī ṭālib · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Interlinear Qur'an (5: 89-95)
Library of Congress · 1792
Persian
Id (feast day) prayer for good fortune
agha muhammad 'ali · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah
badīʻī tabrīzī · Library of Congress · 1867
Persian
Prayers for the New Year (Noruz)
muhammad bakhsh · Library of Congress · 1796
Persian
al-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
mīr khvānd, muḥammad ibn khāvandshāh · Library of Congress · 1625
Persian
Imāmīyah
Library of Congress · 1900
Arabic
Gulzar calligraphic panel
husayn zarrin qalam · Library of Congress · 1797
Persian
Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Iqbāl al-ṣāliḥāt
mihr raḥīm khān · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Silsilah-i shaykhīyah
kirmānī, muḥammad karīm khān; shīrāzī, muḥammad ʻalī ibn mu… · Library of Congress · 1866
Persian
Kitāb-i qiṣṣah-ʼi Kāmʹrūp
Library of Congress · 1788
Persian
Qismī az Bayān-i Fārsī
bāb, ʻalī muḥammad shīrāzī · Library of Congress · 1900
Arabic
Durrat al-tāj
ibn rustam khān ṣafī qulī · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Id (feast day) Poem
mir muhammad salih · Library of Congress · 1810
Persian
[Pandnāmah.]
ʻaṭṭār, farīd al-dīn · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Persian prose and poetry
Library of Congress · 1743
Persian
Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Gulistān
saʻdī · Library of Congress · 1822
Persian
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
qazwīnī, zakarīyā ibn muḥammad · Library of Congress · 1565
Persian
Huva nuskhah fī nujūm va aḥkām, mawsūm bi-Ẓafarnāmah
munajjim yazdī, jalāl al-dīn muḥammad · Library of Congress · 19??
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