Literature Image Gallery
Browse through selected images taken from Muslim Heritage articles related to Literature...
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Arabic letters transformed into a high art culture, traditional calligraphy
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Arabic ‘Zoomorphic’ Calligraphy. The word ‘Cat’ in Arabic is قَطّ qaṭṭ ~ قِطّ qiṭṭ.
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Reading room of the world’s oldest library – Al-Qarawiyyin is home to approximately 4,000 manuscripts, NPR reports.
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Quran manuscript possibly from Fatimid royal library
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al-Azhar library
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Sher Mandal, which housed Humayun’s library, and was one of the first observatories of Delhi.
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Punjab Public Library, Lahore, Pakistan
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The ancient city of Chinguetti, in the west-African nation of Mauritania, is home to around 6,000 ancient manuscripts
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“The Qur’an is the most important and authentic example of Arabic literature and definitely the most influential.” (Wiki) Safavid manuscript splendor at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Inv. No. 379)
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“Ziryab (789-857) a singer, oud player, composer, poet, and teacher who lived and worked in Iraq, Northern Africa, and Andalusia of the medieval Islamic period”
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Maqamat: Beautifully Illustrated Arabic Literary Tradition”
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Third Volume of al-mujmal fi’l-lugha, Christie’s
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The first and last pages of an original manuscript of Ibn Sina’s Medical Poem (Reference No.1)
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First pages of Bist bab dar ma’rifat-i asturlab, Istanbul, Suleymaniye Library, Ayasofya, MS 2620.
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First pages of Sharh-i bist bab dar ma’rifet-i asturlab, Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library, Ayasofya, MS 2641.
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A class at the Gazanfar Aga Madrasa. Topkapi Palace Museum Library, H. 889.
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The first pages of the hand written manuscript of the Hajji Khalifa’s Jihannuma. Suleymaniye Library, Haci Mahmud 5616.
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The cover page of a hand written Qur’an shows the signature of the owner of it. Suleymaniye Library, Ayasofya 1.
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