MPRINT-MIC-UIB-11
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AnnSco
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Uni
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MPRINT-MIC-UIB-11
General Ref/Shelf Mark: MPRINT-MIC-UIB-11
Title in original script: كتاب المصنف
Title in transliteration: Kitāb al-muṣānnaf
Author-Original Script: أبو بكر احمد بن فزروع بن محمد بن راشد بن جشم العماني النزوي
Author-Latin Script: Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Fazrū' b. Muḥammad bin Rāshid b. Jasham al-Omānī al-Nizwī
Collection of original material: Maalim Idris Collection
Owner/Custodian: WAWAZA
Copyist-Original script: سالم بن سعيد بن محمد الغيث
Copyist-Latin Script: Sālim bin Saʾīd bin Muḥammad al-Ghayth
Description of Content: Fiqh
Modality of text: Manuscript
Text Arrangement: Chapters
Year of copy CE: 1859
Year of copy AH: 1275
Number of volumes: 1
Physical Description of item: Bound in carton. Black and red ink, poor state of preservation. Folios have been laminated.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 27.5
Physical characteristics width (cm): 19.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 148
State of completion: Incomplete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Fiqh
Location of original material: Zanzibar
Location where copied: Zanzibar
Comments: A lenghty fiqh manuscript mid-nineteenth century based on appearance. The text is incomplete and heavily damaged. There was an unfortunate attempt at preservation some time in the past by laminating indiviDuʾal folios. The colophon states this copy was made from a copy belonging to the copyist's father, Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Barwani. The object also seems somewhat out of order. The colophon can be found in image #141 of 148. Collection description The Maalim Idris Collection is a privately curated collection, accumulated over time, primarily as an exercise in heritage preservation. The owner of the collection was the late Maalim Muhammad Idris Muhammed Saleh (1934-2012) in Zanzibar. The various series shelfmarks are indicative of where an item was digitized or under whose auspices. Records bearing te shelfmark MPRINT-CSMC-MIC were imaged at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. Those designated MPRINT-UIB-MIC were imaged by team members at the University of Bergen. Finally, those with MPRINT-EAP1114 (the largest series) were imaged in Zanzibar between 2018-2019 under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund. Several academic books, theses and articles have been authored on the basis of Maalim Idris's collection. However, Maalim himself emphasized his collection as a gateway to a Zanzibari religious heritage that in his opinion had been lost. His main concern was that this be made accessible to "the young people" as an intellectual–as well as physical–link to their past. Maalim Idris obtained his collection through inheritance, and through various sources, with a particular influx from the Comorian community of Zanzibar – of which he was a member. The previous lives of the printed books are evident in the many ownership- and waqfiyya notes. The collection is an eclectic assembly of materials ranging from early printed books from throughout the Muslim world, manuscripts whose origins stretch from Oman and Southern Arabia to the East African coast itself as well as other ephemera. Only the Among the most important items in this collection are 61 Arabic manuscripts dating from 1860 to 1910. These are both Ibadi and Sunni Shafi'i, this not reflective of any particular Islamic school or orientation but . Some are locally authored, others are locally produced copies of standard works, while others are imported from Oman in the late 19th century. The collection now resides in the library of the Wakfu Wangazija in Stone Town, Zanzibar. TIFF files High-quality TIFF images are available for researchers upon request. Please send an e-mail to manuscript-cultures@uni-hamburg.de, include your name, institution and specify which MPRINT images you need and indicate their intended purpose. Your request will be reviewed as quickly as possible. MprinT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was partially conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at University of Hamburg. Most of the digitization occurred between October 2021 and May 2025. MPRINT-EAP466 and MPRINT-EAP1114 were imaged in Lamu from 2011 to 2012 and Zanzibar from 2018 to 2019 respectively under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund.
Title in original script: كتاب المصنف
Title in transliteration: Kitāb al-muṣānnaf
Author-Original Script: أبو بكر احمد بن فزروع بن محمد بن راشد بن جشم العماني النزوي
Author-Latin Script: Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Fazrū' b. Muḥammad bin Rāshid b. Jasham al-Omānī al-Nizwī
Collection of original material: Maalim Idris Collection
Owner/Custodian: WAWAZA
Copyist-Original script: سالم بن سعيد بن محمد الغيث
Copyist-Latin Script: Sālim bin Saʾīd bin Muḥammad al-Ghayth
Description of Content: Fiqh
Modality of text: Manuscript
Text Arrangement: Chapters
Year of copy CE: 1859
Year of copy AH: 1275
Number of volumes: 1
Physical Description of item: Bound in carton. Black and red ink, poor state of preservation. Folios have been laminated.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 27.5
Physical characteristics width (cm): 19.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 148
State of completion: Incomplete
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Fiqh
Location of original material: Zanzibar
Location where copied: Zanzibar
Comments: A lenghty fiqh manuscript mid-nineteenth century based on appearance. The text is incomplete and heavily damaged. There was an unfortunate attempt at preservation some time in the past by laminating indiviDuʾal folios. The colophon states this copy was made from a copy belonging to the copyist's father, Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Barwani. The object also seems somewhat out of order. The colophon can be found in image #141 of 148. Collection description The Maalim Idris Collection is a privately curated collection, accumulated over time, primarily as an exercise in heritage preservation. The owner of the collection was the late Maalim Muhammad Idris Muhammed Saleh (1934-2012) in Zanzibar. The various series shelfmarks are indicative of where an item was digitized or under whose auspices. Records bearing te shelfmark MPRINT-CSMC-MIC were imaged at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. Those designated MPRINT-UIB-MIC were imaged by team members at the University of Bergen. Finally, those with MPRINT-EAP1114 (the largest series) were imaged in Zanzibar between 2018-2019 under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund. Several academic books, theses and articles have been authored on the basis of Maalim Idris's collection. However, Maalim himself emphasized his collection as a gateway to a Zanzibari religious heritage that in his opinion had been lost. His main concern was that this be made accessible to "the young people" as an intellectual–as well as physical–link to their past. Maalim Idris obtained his collection through inheritance, and through various sources, with a particular influx from the Comorian community of Zanzibar – of which he was a member. The previous lives of the printed books are evident in the many ownership- and waqfiyya notes. The collection is an eclectic assembly of materials ranging from early printed books from throughout the Muslim world, manuscripts whose origins stretch from Oman and Southern Arabia to the East African coast itself as well as other ephemera. Only the Among the most important items in this collection are 61 Arabic manuscripts dating from 1860 to 1910. These are both Ibadi and Sunni Shafi'i, this not reflective of any particular Islamic school or orientation but . Some are locally authored, others are locally produced copies of standard works, while others are imported from Oman in the late 19th century. The collection now resides in the library of the Wakfu Wangazija in Stone Town, Zanzibar. TIFF files High-quality TIFF images are available for researchers upon request. Please send an e-mail to manuscript-cultures@uni-hamburg.de, include your name, institution and specify which MPRINT images you need and indicate their intended purpose. Your request will be reviewed as quickly as possible. MprinT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was partially conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at University of Hamburg. Most of the digitization occurred between October 2021 and May 2025. MPRINT-EAP466 and MPRINT-EAP1114 were imaged in Lamu from 2011 to 2012 and Zanzibar from 2018 to 2019 respectively under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund.