From Institute of Ismaili Studies
Just over 1,200 manuscripts (out of nearly 1,700) in the Library are in Arabic, and a substantial portion of these (nearly 900 volumes) relate to Ismaili studies. This makes the Library’s Arabic manuscripts’ collection a very significant corpus of original Ismaili textual sources located anywhere in the Western world.
Four catalogues describing the Arabic manuscripts in the Institute’s Library have been published to date. A union catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts is currently under preparation (for a complete listing see here) and this will be available as a searchable resource.
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