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Islam

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Ars generalis ultima by Ramon Llull, 15th century

 part
Identifier: MS 117/ff. 1r-10v
Contents This section contains the Alphabetum of the Ars generalis ultima (sometimes called the Ars magna) by Ramon Llull. This is a religious philosophical work thought to be intended to convert Muslims to the Christian faith through logic and reason.The Alphabetum is a central part of the so-called Tenary formulation of the ...
Dates: 15th century
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Collection
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,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Material relating to Bishop Kenneth Cragg, and to religious subjects

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1757
Content Description The ms and ts/printed items are: 1 x copy ts sheet 'Islam in India' [1961 statistics], 1p 1 x ts paper, untitled, but concerned with 'talks about Islam', and referring to 'four fortnightly evening meetings, sponsored jointly by the Student Christian Movement and the Islamic Cultural Centre ... held at the Student Movement House in London' [1963], 7pp 1 x copy sheet...
Dates: 1961-2003