MPRINT-MIC-UIB-17
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AnnSco
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Uni
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MPRINT-MIC-UIB-17
General Ref/Shelf Mark: MPRINT-MIC-UIB-17
Collection of original material: Maalim Idris Collection
Owner/Custodian: WAWAZA
Historical Owner: Salman b. Ali b Khadim Khalid b. Sayyid
First sentence in original script: فصل في حساب التنجيم احشب اشمد و اشم
Description of Content: Multi-text item
Modality of text: Manuscript
Text Arrangement: Various
Physical Description of item: manuscript in black and red ink. Various hands ranging from Northern coastal hand to hands that are very poor and messy. Varying qualities of paper. The first texts are all on machine made (?) paper bearing the watermark, LAFUMA VOIRON. The last text is on handmade paper with no watermarks. Not original biinding.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 22.5
Physical characteristics width (cm): 17.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 23
State of completion: Unknown
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Duʾa, mysticism
Geodata: A multi text manuscript with few identifying features and no dates. The texts in the first 2/3 of the ms appear to belong together as they are composed using the same machine made paper with the watermark LAFUMA VOIRON, the last few texts are on handmade paper with no watermark. Written on the verso of the last folio is للشيخ عبد قادر بن يوسف الفرسي To Shaykh Abd al-Qadir bin Yusuf al-Farsy. However, his connection to the texts is unclear as it written on a piece of lined copybook paper.
Location of original material: Zanzibar
Location where copied: Zanzibar 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.
Collection of original material: Maalim Idris Collection
Owner/Custodian: WAWAZA
Historical Owner: Salman b. Ali b Khadim Khalid b. Sayyid
First sentence in original script: فصل في حساب التنجيم احشب اشمد و اشم
Description of Content: Multi-text item
Modality of text: Manuscript
Text Arrangement: Various
Physical Description of item: manuscript in black and red ink. Various hands ranging from Northern coastal hand to hands that are very poor and messy. Varying qualities of paper. The first texts are all on machine made (?) paper bearing the watermark, LAFUMA VOIRON. The last text is on handmade paper with no watermarks. Not original biinding.
Physical characteristics height (cm): 22.5
Physical characteristics width (cm): 17.5
Physical characteristics (folios): 23
State of completion: Unknown
Primary Language of object: Arabic
Script of object: Arabic
Keywords: Duʾa, mysticism
Geodata: A multi text manuscript with few identifying features and no dates. The texts in the first 2/3 of the ms appear to belong together as they are composed using the same machine made paper with the watermark LAFUMA VOIRON, the last few texts are on handmade paper with no watermark. Written on the verso of the last folio is للشيخ عبد قادر بن يوسف الفرسي To Shaykh Abd al-Qadir bin Yusuf al-Farsy. However, his connection to the texts is unclear as it written on a piece of lined copybook paper.
Location of original material: Zanzibar
Location where copied: Zanzibar 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.