ISMC-IIS Joint Library : an introduction to the library collection

The New IIS-ISMC Research Library

Presented at MELCOM International (Istanbul 2014)

Walid GhaliHead of the Library

Intro. The Institute of Ismaili Studies

• 1979• Specialised in Shi‛i Studies, Qur’anic Studies and Islamic education.

Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations

• 2002• Specialised in Islamic studies, Muslims’ cultures, societies, and ethnographies.

Feb. 2014 New Joint Library• The IIS and the ISMC agreed to establish one joint library instead of retaining the two separate libraries.

• Aim: merging aims to meet the Institutes’ teaching needs and cater to their academic programmes.

The personal collection includes manuscripts attributed to

Sheiklh Muhammad Abduh, 1849– 1905

Collection of Anne Marie Schimmel, 1923-2003

She was a leading German Islamist who published more than 50 books on Islamic literature, mysticism and

culture and translated Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi and Turkish poetry

Prof. Mohamed Arkoun’s, 1928-2010 Personal Archive

was an Algerian scholar and thinker. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular

scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual Islamic reform

Peter Avery, University of Cambridge, 1923-2008

Avery contributed to English language work on Persian history and literature, such as

The Age of Expansion and Medieval Persia and published Modern Iran

Mr John Randall

Collected by an antiquarian mostly in the second half of the 20th century. Mr John Randall, the executor of the estate of the deceased antiquary, introduced us to this

uncatalogued collection.

A large collection of original slides, photographs and films belonging to and shot exclusively by Mr Amirali G Mamdani

Available at http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=106452

The Amirali Mamdani Collection

Annemarie Schimmel Collection

Ottoman Language Learning

Ottoman Book Collection

Hamse-yi Nergisi, 1839

Kings Cross Building

Thank you, any questions please!

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