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The ‘Al-Furqan Digital Library’ also includes the online catalogue of the holdings of the Al-Furqan’s physical Library. It is an electronic bibliographic database which describes the Library items, and the way of accessing them.

The Library Collection represents a cornerstone reference collection on major research areas, including Islamic manuscripts. The major subjects covered are: Qur’anic studies, Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology, philosophy, science, medicine, history, geography, art and architecture, and literature; all of them written in the major Islamic languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Swahili, Gujarati, as well as European languages and Russian. The Library collection also includes multilingual dictionaries, Arabic biographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias, covering the classical period to the present time.

To date, the Library has collected over 11,000 titles in more than 16,000 volumes, on various subjects. Moreover, the Library's collections include almost 1,800 printed Islamic manuscript catalogues in around 2,500 volumes, from over 70 countries.

The library’s holdings are arranged and organised according to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) for ease of use, while its collection of catalogues of Islamic manuscripts is classified by country.

Country:Iraq
City:Baghdad
Library:Saddam Manuscripts Library (Dar Ṣaddam li-l-Makhṭuṭat)

Historical manuscripts of the Iraq Museum Library
Makhṭūṭāt al-tārīkh wa-al-tarājim wa-al-siyar fī Maktabat al-Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī
مخطوطات التاريخ والتراجم والسير في مكتبة المتحف العراقي

Usāmah Nāṣir al-Naqshabandī
أسامة ناصر النقشبندي [ و ] ظمياء محمد عباس
Publication Details: Date: 1982
Place: Baghdad
بغداد
Publisher: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah wa-l-lIʿlām
وزارة الثقافة والإعلام
Physical Description:624 p.‎, facsim.‎ ; 24 cm.‎
Notes:Describes 971 historical and biographical mss.‎, now all part of Dār Ṣaddām.‎ See: World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, v.‎2, p.‎23.‎
Language:Arabic
العربية
Contributors:AL-NAQSHABANDĪ, Usāmah Nāṣir (Compiler)
النقشبندي، أسامة ناصر (محرر)
Subject:Islamic manuscripts — Union catalogues & Reference works
المخطوطات الإسلامية — فهارس موحّدة والمراجع
Item Shelf Details:Location: Catalogue collection
Library ID: 5950 Class Mark: Z6620.I4.B34.S36 Main Accession Number: 3658
Volume Accession Number:Vol.‎ ISBN:Volume Details:Status:
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Country:Iraq
City:Baghdad
Library:Saddam Manuscripts Library (Dar Ṣaddam li-l-Makhṭuṭat)
Catalogue:Historical manuscripts of the Iraq Museum Library
Makhṭūṭāt al-tārīkh wa-al-tarājim wa-al-siyar fī Maktabat al-Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī
مخطوطات التاريخ والتراجم والسير في مكتبة المتحف العراقي
Contact:ShariϹ Ḥayfa, Baghdad
Telephone:8840115
Date of establishment:1988
Status:Institutional
Status Details:State library, affiliated to the Department of Monuments & Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Information.
Condition of access:Open to researchers; photographic services available for purposes of editing, publishing and exchange with MSS centres throughout the world.
Total number of Islamic MSS:40,214 (36,461 Arabic; 210 Kurdish; 2,757 Persian; 786 Turkish).
Description of Collection:Dar Ṣaddam is regarded as the central authority in charge of MSS in Iraq, and its responsibilities include MSS in public and private libraries and in the possession of individuals.‎ The nucleus of the collection is the MSS library of the Iraqi Museum, which was started in 1940 and grew to nearly 4,000 MSS by 1968.‎ From then onwards special attention was paid to manuscripts, and consequently they increased to 38,000 by 1988, in addition to more than 50,000 MSS which are registered by Dar Ṣaddam but are kept elsewhere.‎ Such an enormous task required the establishment of a special department for MSS which would be responsible for providing a suitable place and conditions for MSS storage, preservation and restoration, and for making them available to readers.‎ So Dar Ṣaddam was established and the MSS collection of the Iraqi Museum library was transferred to it.‎  

This is the largest MSS collection in Iraq.‎ It includes many rare, decorated and unique MSS and autograph copies.‎ It also includes a large number of specimens and diplomas  (ijazat) of the most celebrated calligraphers in Islamic history.‎ The MSS date from the first century AH to the beginning of this century.‎ The oldest manuscripts are fragments and pages of the Qurʾan written on parchment in Kufic script, from the first three centuries AH.‎ The oldest dated MSS are a letter from the ʿAbbasid Caliph al-Wathiq in the handwriting of Ibn al-Bawwab, and a copy of  Kitab al-Mujmal fi 'l-lugha by Ibn Faris, written in 446 AH / 1054 CE.‎  

The Library acquired by means of purchase or donation several well-known private collections such as those of Father Anastas al-Karmali, Rashid ʿAli al-Gaylani, Mulla Sabir Kirkukli-Zadah, al-Sharif Ḥazim, ʿAbbas al-ʿAzzawi, Sadiq Kammuna, Yaʿqub Sarkis, Masʿud, Muḥammad and Aḥmad ʿAli al-Balaghi, Qasim Muḥammad al-Rajab, Hashim al-Alusi and others.‎ The library's holdings also include the following former private collections:  

–	ʿAlī al-Khāqānī  (350 MSS).‎  
 
–	Muḥammad Ḥasan āl Yāsīn (99 MSS).‎  

–	Aḥmad Nīyāzī (434 MSS).‎  

–	Yūsuf Maskūnī (61 MSS).‎   

–	ʿUbayd al-Utrūshī (224 MSS), Mosul.‎  

–	Raʾūf al-Naqīb (199 MSS), Kirkūk.‎  

–	ʿAbd Allāh al-Sinawī (224 MSS).‎  

–	ʿIzz al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Safwat (56 MSS).‎   

–	ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jazāʾirī  (241 MSS), Najaf.‎   

–	Muṣṭafá Jawād (19 MSS).‎  

–	ϹAbd al-Razzāq al-Ālūsī (386 MSS).‎  

–	Maktabat al-NāϽib wa-'l-Naqshabandī (518 MSS).‎  

–	Kūrkīs  ϹAwwād (36 MSS).‎

–	Salmān Hādī al-ṬuϽma (138 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	ḌiyāϽ Shikāra (93 MSS), al-ϹAmāra.‎  

–	ϹAbd al-Muṭṭalib  ϹAbd al-Ghanī al-Naqīb (78 MSS), Mosul.‎  

–	Nūrī Fayḍ Allāh al-Naqīb (20 MSS), Mosul.‎  

–	Muḥammad Muṣṭafá SaϹīd (1,592 MSS), Kirkūk.‎

–	Khalīl al-Ward (84 MSS).‎

–	MasϹūd Muḥammad (287 MSS), Irbil.‎

–	Muḥammad Ḥasan al-ṬabāṭabāϽī(147 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	SaϹīd al-Dīwah-chī (258 MSS), Mosul.‎

–	ϹAzīz  ϹAbd Allāh al-Ḥassū (10 MSS), Mosul.‎

–	Sayyid Mahdī al-Khirsān (195 MSS), Najaf.‎

–	Muṣṭafá Muḥammad ṣāliḥ al-Suhrawardī  (173 MSS).‎  

–	Kāẓim Sharīf al-Qurashī (173 MSS), Najaf.‎

–	Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Adīb (221 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	Ḥusayn  ϹAlī Maḥfūẓ (255 MSS).‎

–	Muḥammad  ϹAlī Murtaḍá (174 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ḌiyāϽ (185 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Ṣadr (281 MSS), Najaf.‎

–	Ḥamdī  ϹAbd al-Majīd al-Salafī (104 MSS), Duhuk.‎

–	Muḥammad Rashād al-Muftī (423 MSS), Irbil.‎

–	Ḥasan  ϹAbd al-Amīr (127 MSS), KarbalāϽ

–	ϹAbd al-Razzāq al-Fakhrī(185 MSS), Mosul.‎

–	Hāshim Muḥammad al-Khaṭṭāṭ (273 MSS).‎

–	Mahdī Muḥammad al-ϹAskarī (258 MSS), SāmarrāϽ

–	Hāshim Muḥammad al-Rajab (12 MSS).‎

–	Mashkūr Mahḍī al-Asadī (75 MSS).‎

–	ϹAbd al-MunϹim al-Muṣarrif (230 MSS).‎

–	Al-Maktaba al-Ḥusaynīya (1,004 MSS), Najaf.‎

–	Ibrāhīm  ϹAṭṭārbāshī (32 MSS).‎

–	Muḥammad al-Khālisī (376 MSS).‎

Notes:See published World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts. 1992 - 1994,  Vol. 4, p 228.
Published Catalogues:35
Unpublished Catalogues:5
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