[Sca-librarians] UM Islamic Manuscripts collection going online

[Johnna Holloway]

http://www.annarbor.com/news/u-ms-islamic-manuscripts-collection-going-online/

It will be a few months but the University of Michigan's Islamic 
Manuscripts collection is going online.

The manuscripts are mostly in Arabic, but also include works in Turkish 
and Persian, with one in Chaghatai. Works date from about 750 to 1906.

Subjects covered are varied, including Quran texts, commentaries and 
criticism, Islamic traditions, philosophy, and poetry, history and 
mathematics, among others - and all of it is hand-written.

Johnnae