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Utenzi wa Hirqal (MS 45022a)  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Christianity
Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Gabriel (Archangel)
Prophet Mohammed
Oral history
Jibril
Ibnu Omari
Jaafari Mwana Amuye Bashiri
Faith
Muḥammad, Prophet, -641
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، 600-661
Heraclius
Abdalla Shuhuri
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

فرح نامه  

Publication Date:  1282 h. [1865]
Creator:  يزدي، المطهر بن محمد، fl. 1184
Yazdī, al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1184
Yazdi, al-Mutahhar ibn Muhammad, fl. 1184
Subjects:  Natural history -- Early works to 1800
Zoology -- Early works to 1800
Botany -- Early works to 1800
Precious stones -- Early works to 1800
Minerals -- Early works to 1800
Pre-Linnean works
آسیا -- هند -- اوتار پرادش -- لکنو منطقه -- لکنو
Source Institution:  Yale University

Muraqqa' : covers (exemplar)  

Measurements:  H27 x W18.5 cm
Subjects:  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
آسیا -- ایران
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Donated in 1935 on behalf of the late Mr R.S. Greenshields.

Surat Al-Fatihah  

Subjects:  Qur'an
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

تذكرة الملوك  

Publication Date:  1936
Creator:  آصف، محمد هاشم
Āṣaf, Muḥammad Hāshim 1765 or 1766-1842
Format:  198 f.
Subjects:  Iran -- History
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Qu'ran (tagged 'kware')  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Book Covers
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Response to a question on Shiite doctrine  

Publication Date:  1843
Creator:  Rashtī, Kāẓim ibn Qāsim, -1843
رشتي، كاظم بن قاسم، -1843
Measurements:  29 x 20 cm
Subjects:  Shaykhī
الشيخية‎
Shīʻah -- Doctrines -- Sources
الشيعة
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Wakar siga kuwara sai anyi kira  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Abubakar Matkaturu
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

گنج الگنج  

Publication Date:  1631
Creator:  نصر بن احمد, ابو القاسم, الشاداني النيشابوري
Naṣr ibn Aḥmad, al-Shādānī al-Nīshāpūrī
Subjects:  Persian prose literature.
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Poetry
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Qasidar na roki Allah  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Asma'u, Nana, 1793-1865
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Lyric poetry
Qasida
قصيدة
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Taqwīm al-abdān  

Publication Date:  ca. 1500-1600?
Creator:  ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى، d. 1100
Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá, d. 1100
Ibn Jazlah, Yahya ibn 'Isa, d. 1100
Subjects:  Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval
آسيا -- الشرق الأوسط
Source Institution:  Yale University

Three Crescent Moons Watermark from the Grand Imam Yousouf manuscript collection (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Moon in art
القمر في الفن
Lune dans l'art
Mond in der Kunst
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
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