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‘Our Library’ databank / collection
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.
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Barnāmaj al-Maktabah al-Khālidīyah al-ʿUmūmīyah | |||||||||
| Rāghib bin Nuʿmān bin Rāghib al-Khālidī | |||||||||
| راغب بن نعمان بن راغب الخالدي | |||||||||
| Publication Details: | Date: 1900 (1318) | ||||||||
| Place: Jerusalem | |||||||||
| القدس الشريف | |||||||||
| Publisher: Maṭbaʿat Jūrjī Ḥabīb Ḥanānīyah | |||||||||
| مطبعة جورجي حبيب حنانيا | |||||||||
| Physical Description: | 78 p. (photocopy) ; 30 cm. | ||||||||
| Notes: | Handlist of mss. and printed books in the Khālidī Library. First catalogue of the public library compiled by Rāghib al-Khālidī with the aid of Ṭāhir al-Jazāʾirī. See World Survey of Islamic mss., v. 2, p. 590. | ||||||||
| Language: | Arabic العربية | ||||||||
| Contributors: | AL-KHĀLIDĪ, Rāghib ibn Nuʿmān ibn Rāghib (Compiler) الخالدي، راغب بن نعمان بن راغب (محرر) | ||||||||
| Subject: | Islamic manuscripts — Union catalogues & Reference works المخطوطات الإسلامية — فهارس موحّدة والمراجع | ||||||||
| Item Shelf Details: | Location: Catalogue collection | ||||||||
| Library ID: 8930 Class Mark: Z6620.P31.Q8.K4 Main Accession Number: 9513 | |||||||||
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5XX | | $aHandlist of mss. and printed books in the Khālidī Library. First catalogue of the public library compiled by Rāghib al-Khālidī with the aid of Ṭāhir al-Jazāʾirī. See World Survey of Islamic mss., v. 2, p. 590. |
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| Contact: | Ṭariq Bab al-Silsila, Old City, at the top of ϹAqabat Abi Madyan |
| Date of establishment: | The library was formally endowed in its present building in 1900, but had already been a distinct family institution for at least fourteen years prior to this date. |
| Status: | Private |
| Status Details: | Private family library, operated under the terms of a family endowment (waqf dhurri). |
| Condition of access: | The Library is presently closed for major renovation, cataloguing, and conservation work planned for completion in 1994. Regular opening hours are not presently envisaged, but access will be available to qualified researchers by advance appointment with the curator and upon presentation of proper identification or a letter of introduction. |
| Total number of Islamic MSS: | ca. 1,257 (ca. 1,200 Arabic; 18 Persian; 36 Turkish). These figures are provisional, pending completion of cataloguing work on the collections. |
| Description of Collection: | The Khalidi Library, one of the most important private Islamic libraries in the world, is located in a thirteenth-century Mamluk building known as the Turba of Barakat Khan (built after 644/1246), in Ṭariq Bab al-Silsila near the Bab al-Silsila gate of Al-Ḥaram al-Sharif. The building is presently being renovated, and the library's collections will soon be moved into quarters of a high professional standard, with books and manuscripts stored on metal shelving under controlled climatic conditions and protected from insect and other damage. The most important 120 MSS are now being conserved and microfilmed, and all the MSS are in course of cataloguing.
The MSS are the holdings of a prominent Jerusalem family, based on various personal collections established at least as far back as the eighteenth century CE, and consolidated from the late nineteenth century onwards. MSS were still being incorporated into the library from the holdings of family members into the 1930s. The oldest MS. can be dated to the fourth century AH / tenth century CE on the basis of the script, and the oldest specifically dated MS. is a work from 418/1027. There are numerous makramas, or presentation copies, as well as several which were originally copied for royal libraries, and others gilded and decorated to a very high standard. Of particular importance is the rather high proportion of unique MSS which the library contains.
Of the unique MSS, some important examples are the following: 1) Al-Akhbar al-manthura, by Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan ibn Durayd, a MS. of the fourth century AH; 2) a majmuʿa of unique essays, drafts of essays, and notes by Taqiy al-Din ʿAli b. ʿAbd al-Kafi al-Subki (autograph, wr. 741–49 / 1340–48); 3) Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyaʾ, by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar ibn Abi ʿAdasa al-Qudsi (autograph, wr. 856/1452); 4) Al-Kiyasa fi aḥkam al-siyasa, by Yusuf b. Muḥsin b. Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣaydawi (autograph, wr. 884/1479); 5) the first volume of jilaʾ al-afkar fi sirat al-mukhtar, by Muḥammad b. Ibrahim al-Bilbaysi (autograph, wr. 986/1520). Other autograph MSS include 6) Manadiḥ al-mamadiḥ wa-rawḍat al-maʿathir wa-'l-mafakhir fi khaṣaʾiṣ al-Malik al-Naṣir, by ʿAbd al-Munʿim b. ʿUmar b. Ḥassan al-Julyani, dated 598/1201 and apparently the copy originally presented to Ṣalaḥ al-Din al-Ayyubi (r. 564–589 / 1169–1193). The library's copy of 7) Kitab Shanaq fi sumum wa-'l-tiryaq by the ancient Indian physician Canakya, translated through Pahlavi and Syriac into Arabic, is a richly decorated royal copy from the library of the Zengid Arslan Shah I (r. 589–607 / 1193 – 1211).
See:
Khazāʾin al-kutub al-ʿArabīya: nafāʾis al-Khizāna al-Khālīdiya fi 'l-Quds al-Sharīf.By ʿAbd Allāh Mukhliṣ.Majallat al-Majmaʿ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī bi-Dimashq 4, pp. 366–369, 409–413. Khiṭaṭ al-Shām, VI.By Muḥammad Kurd ʿAlī.Damascus: Maṭbaʿat al-Mufīd, pp. 201–202. 1945 – 1946 Dūr kutub Filasṭīn wa-nafāʾis makhṭūṭātihā.By Asʿad Ṭalas.Majallat al-Majmaʿ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī bi-Dimashq 20, pp. 236–237, 344–347, 440–448, 528–536; 21, 49–60. Al-Maktaba al-Khālidīya.By Filib Ṭarrāzī.Khazāʾin al-kutub al-ʿArabīya fī 'l-khafiqayn. I. Beirut: Wizārat al-Tarbiya wa-'l-Funūn al-Jamīla, pp. 142–143. Muḥammad Rūḥī al-Khālidī:rāʾid al-baḥth al-taʾrīkhī al-ḥadīth fī Filasṭīn.By Nāṣir al-Dīn Al-Asad.Cairo: Maʿhad al-Buḥūth wa-'l-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabīya. 148pp. The Turbat Barakat Khān or Khalidi Library. By A.G. Walls.Levant 6, pp. 25–50. Ajdādunā fī tharā Bayt al-Maqdis.By Kāmil Jamīl al-ʿAsalī.Amman: Muʿassasat Āl al-Bayt, pp. 73–75. Maʿāhid al-ʿilm fī Bayt al-Maqdis.By Kāmil Jamīl al-ʿAsalī.Amman: University of Jordan, pp. 379–388. Al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿArabīya fi Filasṭīn. By Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Munajjid.Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-Jadīd. Turkish manuscripts: cataloguing since 1960 and manuscripts still uncatalogued, Part 3. By Eleazar Birnbaum.Journal of the American Oriental Society Al-Maktabāt. Al-Mawsūʿa al-Filasṭīnīya, IV.Edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī Hāshim.Damascus: Hayʿat al-Mawsūʿa al-Filasṭīnīya, pp. 287–288. Al-Mufaṣṣal fī taʾrīkh al-Quds. 2nd edition.By ʿĀrif al-ʿĀrif.Jerusalem: Maṭbaʿat al-Maʿārif, p. 449. Mamlūk Jerusalem: an architectural study. By Michael Hamilton Burgoyne, with additional historical research by D.S. Richards.London: World of Islam Festival Trust. Al-Maktaba al-Khālidīya: min al-maʿālim al-ḥaḍārīya fī madīnat al-Quds. By Muḥammad Abū Khuḍayr.Al-Quds, Monthly Supplement, 1 June 1990, pp. 4, 9. Conservation at the Khalidi Library in the Old City of Jerusalem.By A.R. Bish.Proceedings of the Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation. Manchester: Institute of Paper Conservation, pp. 178–181. Ottoman Resources in the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem.By Lawrence I. Conrad and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele. Edited by Amnon Cohen and Amy Singer. Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies. Jerusalem: Magnes University Press. expected 1993. The Khalidi Library in Jerusalem: a preliminary report.By Lawrence I. Conrad.Manuscripts of the Middle East 6, 1993? On the family members whose MSS are now deposited in the library, or who helped to establish and organise it, see (in addition to the study by Al-Asad listed above): Ein palästinischer Repräsentant der Tanzimat-Periode: Yūsuf Ḍiyāʾddīn al-Khālidī (1842–1906).By Alexander Schölch.Der Islam 57, pp. 311–322. Palestinian historiography: 1900–1948.By Tarif Khalidi.Journal of Palestine Studies 10 iii, pp. 59–76. Rūḥī Al-Khālidī: a pioneer of comparative literature in Arabic.By H. al-Khateeb.Journal of Arabic Literature 18, pp. 81 –87. Kitāb Al-Sayūnizim aw al-masʾala al-Sharqīya li-Muḥammad Rūḥī al-Khālidī.By Walid Khalidi.Studia Palaestina: Studies in Honour of Constantine K. Zurayk, edited by Hisham Nashabe. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, pp. 37–81. In addition to the MSS shelved in the old Reading Room of the library, a large cache of manuscript materials, some very old, were discovered in the space above the ceiling in 1987. These materials are currently being sorted and classified, and in some cases they fill gaps in the MSS in the Reading Room. These materials also include many Ottoman-period documents which have yet to be cleaned and classified. See the forthcoming report by Conrad & Kellner-Heinkele listed above. |
| Notes: | See published World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts. 1992 - 1994, Vol.2, p 585. |
| Published Catalogues: | 2 |
| Unpublished Catalogues: | 4 |
| Online access: | www.khalidilibrary.org |
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