The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts
The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts was launched in 2010 in collaboration with Brill Academic Publishers until 2020.
The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts explores the crucial importance of the handwritten book in the Muslim world. It is concerned with the written transmission of knowledge, the numerous varieties of Islamic book culture and the materials and techniques of bookmaking, namely codicology.
It also considers activities related to the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections, including cataloguing, conservation and digitization. It is the journal’s ambition to provide students and scholars, librarians and collectors – in short, everyone who is interested in Islamic manuscripts – with a professional journal and functional platform of their own.
Index of articles
(most recent first)
Fozia Bora
A Mamluk Historian’s Holograph. Messages from a Musawwada of Taʾrīkh
pp. 119–153
Joep Lameer
Ibn Kammūna’s Commentary on Suhrawardī’s Talwīḥāt. Three Editions
pp. 154–184
Ronit Ricci
Thresholds of Interpretation on the Threshold of Change: Paratexts in Late 19th-century Javanese Manuscripts
pp. 185–210
Michaelle Biddle
Recent Preservation and Conservation Activities for Northern Nigerian Manuscripts in Arabic Script
pp. 211–229
Jan Just Witkam
A Qurʾān of Mixed Media: Tabriz 1258 (1842-1843)
pp. 230–239
Abstracts, Résumés
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 3, No. 2, Fall 2012
pp. 240–243
Anne Regourd
Arabic documents from the Cairo Geniza in the David Kaufmann Collection in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences—Budapest
pp. 1–19
Jan Just Witkam
The Oriental Manuscripts in the Juynboll Family Library in Leiden
pp. 20–102
Dennis Halft
A Hitherto Unknown Persian Manuscript of Ḥosayn Vāʿeẓ Kāšefī’s (d. 910/1504-05) Treatise on Ethics Aḫlāq-e moḥsenī in the Dominican Priory in Vienna
pp. 103–115
Abstracts, Résumés
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, volume 3 No. 1, Spring 2012
pp. 116–118
Noah Gardiner and Frédéric Bauden
A Recently Discovered Holograph Fair Copy of al-Maqrīzī's al-Mawā’iẓ wa-al-itibār fī dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār (Michigan Islamic MS 605)
pp. 123–131
Anne Regourd
Stratégies de préservation/conservation dans le cadre du Programme Zabīd (Yémen): une approche multiple
pp. 132–164
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke
The literary-religious tradition among 7th/13th century Yemenī Zaydīs: The formation of the Imām al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim (d. 656/1258)
pp. 165–222
Mahmoud Zaki
Early Arabic Bookmaking Techniques as Described by al-Rāzī in His Recently Rediscovered Zīnat al-Katabah
pp. 223–234
Abstracts, Résumés
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 2, No. 2, Fall 2011
pp. 235–238
Michaelle Biddle
Inks in the Islamic Manuscripts of Northern Nigeria. Old Recipes, Modern Analysis and Medicine
pp. 1–35
Aftandil Erkinov
How Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān II of Khiva (1864-1910) cultivated his Court Library as a Means of Resistance against the Russian Empire
pp. 36–49
Karin Scheper and Arnoud Vrolijk
Made in China. Physical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts from Xinjiang in Leiden University Library
pp. 50–69
Alfrid Bustanov
The Sacred Texts of Siberian Khwāja Families. The Descendants of Sayyid Ata
pp. 70–99
Alba Fedeli
The Digitization Project of the Qurānic Palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or. 1287, and the Verification of the Mingana-Lewis Edition: Where is Salām?
pp. 100–117
Abstracts, Résumés
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 2, No. 1, Spring 2011
pp. 118–122
Articles from this issue are freely available to download from Brill’s online editions website.
The Osler Codex of Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī’s Commentary on Avicenna’s al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt
pp. 3–17
The Harvard University Library Islamic Heritage Project: Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Digitization of Islamic Manuscripts
pp. 18–30
The Perils of Catalogues
pp. 31–36
Bringing the Maqrīzī in a Better State. The Restoration and Binding of MS Leiden Or. 14.533
pp. 37–60
A maġribī Copy of the Kitāb al-Faraj ba’d aš-Šidda, by the Irāqī qādī at-Tanūhī. Study of a Manuscript of Liège University (Belgium)
pp. 61–78
The 19th-century Malay Qur’ān: A Comparative Study of Materials and Techniques
pp. 79–94
From Qusā b. Lūqā to Carra de Vaux. On the History of the Edition and Translation of the Barulcus, also called ’Mechanic’, by Heron of Alexandria
pp. 95–100
The Islamic Manuscripts in the McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
pp. 101–142
Journal of Islamic manuscripts vol. 1 (2010), No. 1
pp. 143–147
