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Arabic, Persian and Gujarati manuscripts : the Hamdani Collection in the library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies / François de Blois.
- Title
- Arabic, Persian and Gujarati manuscripts : the Hamdani Collection in the library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies / François de Blois.
- Author
- Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies ; New York : distributed in the United States of America and in Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Blois, François de.
- Description
- xxxiv, 259 p., 8 p. of plates : facsims. (some col.), geneal. tables. port.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The Muhammad Ali Hamdani Collection in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies represents a large segment of the library collected over seven generations by an eminent family of scholars from the Da'udi Bohra community in India and the Yemen. The bulk of the manuscripts are Ismaili religious writings, but there are also a good number of interesting books of general Islamic, or indeed secular content, and these give a rare insight into the whole cultural range of a learned family of Indian religious scholars. The overwhelming majority of the books are in Arabic, but there are also a sma.
- Subject
- Hamdani, Abbas > Manuscripts > Catalogs
- Institute of Ismaili Studies > Catalogs
- London > Bibliothek
- Manuscripts, Arabic > Catalogs
- Manuscripts, Arabic > London > Catalogs
- Manuscripts, Persian > London > Catalogs
- Manuscripts, Gujarati > London > Catalogs
- Ismaili literature > Manuscripts > Catalogs
- Handschrift
- Ismailiten
- Arabisch
- Persisch
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text in English with facsimiles in Arabic.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Genealogical Tables; Notes on the Catalogue Entries; History of the Hamdani Collection of Manuscripts by Abbas Hamdani; The Catalogue;
- ISBN
- 1848857640
- 9781848857643
- LCCN
- ^^2011435429
- OCLC
- 677914571
- SCSB-12261730
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library