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Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library - Other religious literatures etc.,

 

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Literatures of other religions

  • Texts relating to the Baha'i, Druze, Christians and Jews, including a 9th-century manuscript of the Old Testament Book of Job, and an illuminated Mamluk copy of the Four Gospels

    Miscellaneous documents

  • A selection of Arabic papyri from the 8th century onwards
  • Specimens of calligraphy, letters, firmans, awqaf and other documents relating to figures such as the Egyptian ruler Ahmad ibn Tulun and the Ottoman Sultans Sulayman I and Bayazid I
  • Working papers of scholars such as Solomon Negri, J. Perronet-Thompson, and Claudius James Rich