Monday, December 6, 2010

Open Access Digital Library: Islamic Heritage Project

Islamic Heritage Project (IHP)
Harvard’s Islamic Heritage Project (IHP) is a digital collection that includes over 280 manuscripts, more than 50 maps, and more than 275 printed texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections. Through the IHP, these materials are freely available to Internet users worldwide.
Totaling over 156,000 pages, IHP materials date from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and represent many:
  • regions, including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and South, Southeast, and Central Asia;
  • languages, primarily Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish; also Urdu, Chagatai, Malay, Gujarati, Indic languages, and several Western languages; and
  • subjects, including religious texts and commentaries; Sufism; history, geography, law, and the sciences (astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine); poetry and literature; rhetoric, logic, and philosophy; calligraphy, dictionaries and grammar, as well as biographies and autobiographical works.
Additional materials may be added to the IHP over time.

Published Materials

The IHP collection includes over 275 printed texts (over 84,000 pages), selected from the Middle Eastern Collection of Widener Library, the Harvard Law School Library, and Houghton Library.

Browse All Published Materials

Browse Published Materials by Selected Topics

Arabic language
Biography
Dictionaries
Fatwas
Geography
Grammar
Ismaili Literature
Koran
Law
Literature
Logic
Mathematics
Medicine
Persian language
Philosophy
Poetry
Prophet Muhammad
Rhetoric
Sufism
Theology
Turkish language
Women
 
 

Manuscripts

The IHP collection now includes over 280 manuscripts, selected from Houghton LibraryHarvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum. and the
Dating from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, these Islamic manuscripts constitute a record of the diverse artistic traditions, literary cultures, learning traditions, and religious interpretations of the pre-modern Islamic world.

Browse All Manuscripts

Browse Manuscripts by Selected Topics

Biography
Calligraphy
Dictionaries
Divination/Occultism
Geography
Grammar
Hadith
Ismaili Literature
Koran
Law
Literature
Logic
Philosophy
Poetry
Rhetoric
Science
Astrology
Astronomy
Mathematics
Medicine
Sufism
Theology
 

Maps

The IHP collection includes more than 50 historic maps from the 16th to the 20th centuries CE. Selected from the Harvard Map Collection, these items provide a detailed cartographic record of the regions documented by IHP’s manuscripts and texts.

Browse All Maps

Browse Maps by Region

Arabian Peninsula
Balkans
Central Asia and Caucasus
Chinese Turkestan
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
North Africa
Ottoman Empire
South Asia
Syria/Lebanon/Palestine
Turkey
 


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