Dataset Open Access
The al-Jazzar Manuscripts (v2)
Aljoumani, Said;
Burak, Guy;
Hirschler, Konrad
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<subfield code="a"><p>This dataset contains information on the manuscripts that were once housed in the library of the Jazzar Mosque in Acre (modern-day Israel) and that are today distributed across libraries worldwide. The dataset was first established in the framework of the <a href="https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/research/affiliated-projects/al-jazzar-library.html">al-Jazzar Library Project </a>(ALP; 2022-2025) affiliated with the <a href="https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/">Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures</a> (CSMC) at Universit&auml;t Hamburg.</p>
<p>ALP wrote the history of the library founded by the Ottoman governor of the province of Sidon, Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804). This book collection was part of the most visible and enduring aspect of the governor&rsquo;s long rule, a splendid mosque and madrasa complex at the economic and administrative center of his power in Acre. Even though this was a library on the cultural periphery of the Ottoman Empire, the holdings of this library included over 1,800 manuscripts, among them &lsquo;ancient&rsquo; masterpieces such as the most important copy of Ibn al-Nadim&rsquo;s (d. 995) bibliographic work, <em>The Catalog (al-Fihrist).</em> Situated at critical junctures of the political and intellectual history of the region, the library represents continuities and changes in the wider world of books and knowledge economies during the 18th and 19th centuries. ALP&rsquo;s main output, <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/71496"><em>The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār</em></a> was published with Brill (2025). In parallel, the CSMC carried out the project <a href="https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/cultural-heritage/akka.html">Rescuing the Books of al-Jazzar</a>, funded by <a href="https://www.aliph-foundation.org/">Aliph Foundation</a>, to create the conditions for the long-term preservation of the remaining collection in Akka.</p>
<p>The <em>al-Jazzar Manuscripts v2</em> dataset contains the seventy-eight manuscripts that constitute the basis for <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/71496"><em>The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār</em></a> . Additions to version 1 are: Jerusalem, NLI, Ms. Temp. Ar. 186.1; Beirut, Shawish Library; and&nbsp;Damascus, Syrian National Library,&nbsp;MS. 16925. We expect future versions of this dataset to cover an increasing number of al-Jazzar manuscripts.</p></subfield>
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- Publication date:
- April 1, 2024
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- Keyword(s):
- CSMC UWA affiliated projects Syria Ottoman Arabic 17th century CE 18th century CE
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International