September 15, 2026 Dataset Open Access

Anne Bang; Scott Reese

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      <creatorName>Anne Bang</creatorName>
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      <affiliation>University of Bergen</affiliation>
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    <creator>
      <creatorName>Scott Reese</creatorName>
      <affiliation>University of Hamburg</affiliation>
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  <titles>
    <title>MPRINT-ZIAR-STONETOWN-012</title>
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  <publisher>Universität Hamburg</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2026</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Lamu</subject>
    <subject>Islamic</subject>
    <subject>MprinT</subject>
    <subject>Written artefacts</subject>
    <subject>CSMC</subject>
    <subject>UWA</subject>
    <subject>East Africa</subject>
    <subject>Arabic</subject>
    <subject>MPRINT-ZIAR</subject>
    <subject>Zanzibar</subject>
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  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2026-09-15</date>
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    <rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights>
    <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MPRINT-ZIAR-STONETOWN-012&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Ref/Shelf Mark&lt;/strong&gt;: MPRINT-ZIAR-STONETOWN-012&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title in original script&lt;/strong&gt;: اعانة الطالبين على حل ألفاظ فتح المعين، الجزء الأول &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title in transliteration&lt;/strong&gt;: ʾiʿānat al-ṭālibīn ʿalā ḥalli ʾalfāẓi fatḥ al-muʿīn, al- juzʾ al-ʾawwal&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Author-Original Script&lt;/strong&gt;: السيد أبى بكر المشهور بالسيد البكرى ابن العارف بالله السيد محمد شطا الدمياطى&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Author-Latin Script&lt;/strong&gt;: al-Sayyid ʾAbī Bakr al-Mashhūr bi Sayyid al-Bakrī ʾibn al-ʿĀrif billah al-Sayyid Muḥammad Shaṭā al-Dimyāṭī&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collection of original material&lt;/strong&gt;: Stonetown&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Owner/Custodian&lt;/strong&gt;: Mustafa al-Iqbāl&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description of Content&lt;/strong&gt;: Fiqh&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modality of text&lt;/strong&gt;: Typography&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Year of copy CE&lt;/strong&gt;: 1881&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Year of copy AH&lt;/strong&gt;: 1299&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of volumes&lt;/strong&gt;: 1&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Physical Description of item&lt;/strong&gt;: unbound. Its papers are in good condition&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Physical characteristics height (cm)&lt;/strong&gt;: 27.5&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Physical characteristics width (cm)&lt;/strong&gt;: 19.5&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Physical characteristics (folios)&lt;/strong&gt;: 256&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;State of completion&lt;/strong&gt;: Incomplete&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary Language of object&lt;/strong&gt;: Arabic&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Script of object&lt;/strong&gt;: Arabic&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords&lt;/strong&gt;: Fiqh &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location of original material&lt;/strong&gt;: Stonetown,Zanzibar&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher&lt;/strong&gt;: Maṭbaʿa Dār ʾIḥyāʿ al-Kutub al-ʿArabiyya&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher Original Script&lt;/strong&gt;: مطبعة دار احياء الكتب العربية&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collection description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Hasan bin Ameir Collection (HAC) was created by digitizing materials from the library of books belonging to Ḥasan bin ʿAmīr al-Shirāzī (d.1979). Located in the Madrasat Hassania Mtegani Makunduchi in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, the library was established by his students after his death. Hasan bin Ameir was one of the most prominent scholars, teachers, and Muslim writers of his era as well as a Qādiriyya shaykh and activist. These traits are reflected in the variety of books in his library. The collection includes 192 Arabic-Islamic books from various printing houses around the world. Almost all contain ownership notes written in Ḥasan bin Ameir's own hand on the inside cover, explaining how and when he acquired each. In terms of genre, most of the books focus on fiqh.&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;Several other series of images were created by ZIAR. These include MPRINT-ZIAR-FIC, MPRINT-ZIAR-Kajwenga; MPRINT-ZIAR-Kibuteni; MPRINT-ZIAR-Ndijani; MPRINT-ZIAR-Pemba; MPRINT-ZIAR-Stonetown; and MPRINT-ZIAR-UNGUJA UKUU KAEPWANI. These constitute other small collections belonging to various families and caretakers but grouped by geographic location.&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIFF files&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;High-quality TIFF images are available for researchers upon request. Please send an e-mail to &lt;a href="mailto:manuscript-cultures@uni-hamburg.de"&gt;manuscript-cultures@uni-hamburg.de&lt;/a&gt;, include your name, institution and specify which MPRINT images you need and indicate their intended purpose. Your request will be reviewed as quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    <description descriptionType="Other">MprinT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was partially conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at University of Hamburg. Most of the digitization occurred between October 2021 and May 2025. MPRINT-EAP466 and MPRINT-EAP1114 were imaged in Lamu from 2011 to 2012 and Zanzibar from 2018 to 2019 respectively under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund.</description>
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