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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine, mathematics,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Papers of Professor Robert Bertram Serjeant
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1062
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 11 unsorted boxes of papers which contain research notes (linguistics, ethonology and anthropology in South Arabia), bibliography notes, newspapers related to events in South Arabia, photocopies of Arabic manuscripts, typed notes on the political and military situation in Yemen during the 1960s (North Yemen Civil War).
Papers relating to academic research, containing Serjeant’s own...
Dates:
1940-1980
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- Manuscripts, Persian 1
- Middle East 1
- Qur'an 1
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- South Asia 1
- Yemen (Arab Republic) History 1962-1970 1
- Yemen (Arab Republic)--History--Revolution, 1962. 1
- Yemen | Description and travel 1 ∧ less
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- Names
- Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 1
- Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) 1
- Serjeant, Marion, d 2013 (Edinburgh-based doctor, wife of Robert Serjeant) 1
- Serjeant, Robert Bertram, 1915-1993 (Professor of Arabic, Cambridge) 1
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