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This catalogue documents 187 original manuscripts, ranging from large codices to opuscula, and partial collections. Their subject matter spans the wide spectrum of Islamic sciences and the humanities. Yet, the majority relate to jurisprudence (fiqh) and Prophetic tradition (Ḥadīth) and associated disciplines.
The catalogue describes important and rare manuscripts, including valuable literary works, such as the poetry collection (Dīwān) of the eminent poet, Ibn Zaqāʿah alGazzī, and fatwas of the erudite scholar, alTamrtāshī alGazzī, and also Shaykh alIslām Ḥasan bin ʿAbd alLaṭīf alḤusaynī. A key distinction of this library’s manuscript collections are holographs by Gazan scholars. These include Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Muṣṭafā alṬabbāʿ, Shaykh Muḥammad Sakīk alGazzī, Shaykh Muḥyī alDīn alMalāḥ, and other natives of Gaza City in southern Palestine.
The manuscripts had been endowed as waqf by Palestinian scholars, Gazans especially, for centuries. The most important collection is that of Shaykh Abū alMawāhib ʿAlī alDajānī, former Grand Mufti of Jaffa (Yāfā).
This catalogue’s importance lies in evidencing that the Arabic Islamic heritage is indigenous to occupied Palestine. It presents documentary proof of the enduring nature of this heritage in that land. It also documents a precious Islamic manuscript collection in Gaza City, with roots in the early Islamic centuries. This is the library collection of alʿUmarī Grand Mosque; a centre of knowledge and culture over many centuries, up to the late 20th Century, which seeks to regain its rightful scientific, cultural, and world heritage position.
This catalogue is a companion to other regionspecific catalogues published by AlFurqān; for example, “Catalogue of Manuscripts of alAqṣā Mosque Library” and “Catalogue of Manuscripts in alKhālidiyyah Library”.
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This catalogue documents 187 original manuscripts, ranging from large codices to opuscula, and partial collections. Their subject matter spans the wide spectrum of Islamic sciences and the humanities. Yet, the majority relate to jurisprudence (fiqh) and Prophetic tradition (Ḥadīth) and associated disciplines.
The catalogue describes important and rare manuscripts, including valuable literary works, such as the poetry collection (Dīwān) of the eminent poet, Ibn Zaqāʿah alGazzī, and fatwas of the erudite scholar, alTamrtāshī alGazzī, and also Shaykh alIslām Ḥasan bin ʿAbd alLaṭīf alḤusaynī. A key distinction of this library’s manuscript collections are holographs by Gazan scholars. These include Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Muṣṭafā alṬabbāʿ, Shaykh Muḥammad Sakīk alGazzī, Shaykh Muḥyī alDīn alMalāḥ, and other natives of Gaza City in southern Palestine.
The manuscripts had been endowed as waqf by Palestinian scholars, Gazans especially, for centuries. The most important collection is that of Shaykh Abū alMawāhib ʿAlī alDajānī, former Grand Mufti of Jaffa (Yāfā).
This catalogue’s importance lies in evidencing that the Arabic Islamic heritage is indigenous to occupied Palestine. It presents documentary proof of the enduring nature of this heritage in that land. It also documents a precious Islamic manuscript collection in Gaza City, with roots in the early Islamic centuries. This is the library collection of alʿUmarī Grand Mosque; a centre of knowledge and culture over many centuries, up to the late 20th Century, which seeks to regain its rightful scientific, cultural, and world heritage position.
This catalogue is a companion to other regionspecific catalogues published by AlFurqān; for example, “Catalogue of Manuscripts of alAqṣā Mosque Library” and “Catalogue of Manuscripts in alKhālidiyyah Library”.
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This catalogue documents 187 original manuscripts, ranging from large codices to opuscula, and partial collections. Their subject matter spans the wide spectrum of Islamic sciences and the humanities. Yet, the majority relate to jurisprudence (fiqh) and Prophetic tradition (Ḥadīth) and associated disciplines.
The catalogue describes important and rare manuscripts, including valuable literary works, such as the poetry collection (Dīwān) of the eminent poet, Ibn Zaqāʿah alGazzī, and fatwas of the erudite scholar, alTamrtāshī alGazzī, and also Shaykh alIslām Ḥasan bin ʿAbd alLaṭīf alḤusaynī. A key distinction of this library’s manuscript collections are holographs by Gazan scholars. These include Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Muṣṭafā alṬabbāʿ, Shaykh Muḥammad Sakīk alGazzī, Shaykh Muḥyī alDīn alMalāḥ, and other natives of Gaza City in southern Palestine.
The manuscripts had been endowed as waqf by Palestinian scholars, Gazans especially, for centuries. The most important collection is that of Shaykh Abū alMawāhib ʿAlī alDajānī, former Grand Mufti of Jaffa (Yāfā).
This catalogue’s importance lies in evidencing that the Arabic Islamic heritage is indigenous to occupied Palestine. It presents documentary proof of the enduring nature of this heritage in that land. It also documents a precious Islamic manuscript collection in Gaza City, with roots in the early Islamic centuries. This is the library collection of alʿUmarī Grand Mosque; a centre of knowledge and culture over many centuries, up to the late 20th Century, which seeks to regain its rightful scientific, cultural, and world heritage position.
This catalogue is a companion to other regionspecific catalogues published by AlFurqān; for example, “Catalogue of Manuscripts of alAqṣā Mosque Library” and “Catalogue of Manuscripts in alKhālidiyyah Library”.
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Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Great 'Umari Mosque Library, Gaza - Palestine is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781905122684)