The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies. The Center for Research Libraries and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) have provided access to a collection of 206 manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, which were loaned to John Hunwick, Professor of History and Religion at Northwestern University. The collection's holdings include Arabic and Persian language texts, stretching from Southern Spain to South and South-East Asia.Ĭenter for Research Libraries: Timbuktu Manuscript Digitization Project The collection comes as the result of a partnership between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library, and King's College London. The Wellcome collection contains approximately 1,000 manuscripts relating to the history of medicine, the a substantial portion of which may be viewed online. The manuscripts contained within the digitized collection include texts on Shia law and theology texts related to other non-Sunni sects such as the Druze and Kharijities and more than 750 manuscripts on other subjects. Through support from the Virginia and Richard Steward Memorial fund, and the Princeton University Council of the Humanities, the Princeton University Library has digitized 1,400 Islamic Manuscripts from their existing black-and-white microfilm collection, representing approximately 1/6 of the total collection. Princeton University Islamic Manuscripts Collection - Robert Garrett Collection All entries are complete with digital images, as part of the culmination of ongoing digitization efforts. The Leipzig University Library has a large collection of digitized Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts - a small number of which are from West Africa. The result of a project began by Aluka, in partnership with SAVAMA-DCI, more than 320 Timbuktu manuscript have now been made available through JSTOR. Manuscripts may be viewed online with registration. Ongoing work continues in Timbuktu with the Imam Ben Essayuti Library. HMML has partnered with SAVAMA-DCI in Bamako, Mali to digitize many of the manuscripts that were evacuated from Timbuktu in 2012 - including the holdings of the Abdelbakr Bin Said Library, the Abdullah Abdrahamane Library, the Attaher Muaz Library, and the Mamma Haidara Library totaling nearly 100,000 items. The archives now contain more than 200,000 complete manuscripts, many of which come from Western Africa. The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) is an initiative out of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, which claims to hold the world's largest archive of manuscript photographs in microfilm and digital formats. ![]() A recommended search to locate these resources specifically is "manuscripts Arabic Michigan Ann Arbor." The holdings include more than 1,000 volumes from the University of Michigan's Islamic manuscripts collection. The Hathi Trust Digital Library contains a large collection of digitized Arab manuscripts, which are held in the public domain. It contains some works originating from West Africa. The French National Library has a large digital collection of Arabic-language resources, many of which have been made available in the public domain. Gallica - Bibliotheque Nationale de France Upon project completion, the finished products are provided online as an addendum to the projects' descriptions. Projects related specifically to Arabic manuscripts in West Africa have to date been undertaken in Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Through the provision of grants, archives are located, cataloged, and ultimately digitized and deposited with local institutions and the British Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Endangered Archives Programme, created by the British Library, aims to assist in the preservation of archival materials worldwide that are in danger of destruction or deterioration. The digitized collection currently contains 163 accessible manuscripts, compete with relevant cataloging information. The Bavarian State Library of Munich is currently undertaking a large digitization project of their microfilm Arabic Manuscripts collection, dating to between the 9th and 20th centuries, CE. Current digitized collections include the Fuuta Jalon Pular Ajami Manuscripts of Senegal Hausa Ajami manuscripts from Nigeria as well as Wolofal manuscripts from Senegal. The AAL is an initiative between Boston University and the West African Research Center (WARC) to ensure that Ajami texts from sub-Saharan Africa are preserved and are treated as major sources of knowledge on Islamized Africa. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility.
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