UCLA Library is out with the third installment of its “L.A. Stories” video series, this time highlighting the significance of cataloging the rare Islamicate materials in its collection.
UCLA Library stewards the second-largest collection of Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscripts in North America. Dating from as early as 1100 to as recently as the 1930s, the manuscripts represent a wide variety of languages and subjects, originating from North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and South Asia and the Middle East. The texts contain records of religious, cultural, literary and scientific documentation in areas under Muslim rule.
In the video above, UCLA Library experts and UCLA scholars discuss the significance of the Library’s ongoing Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative, a project to describe and catalog these rare materials to make them more accessible to local communities and scholars worldwide.
The UCLA Library video series highlights the region’s diverse communities, cultures and historical landmarks through the Library's collections.
Previous installments of ‘L.A. Stories’
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