Arabic Writing and Arab Libraries

• Main Author: Imamuddin, S. M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Ta-Ha Publishers 1983
• Subjects: Islamic libraries > History; Arabic libraries > History; Libraries > History > Spain; Manuscripts, Arabic > Catalogs > Spain; Writing, Arabic > History
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 This short memoir belongs to the series of papers and small books written so far on the subjects by the present writer. Before going to Spain on Study Leave, in September 1953, he had started taking classes on Islamic calligraphy and Numismatics with the Final year M. A. Students in his own department at the University of Dacca and on his return, in June 1956, he was induced to teach the same subject as an honary teacher in the Library Science department newly established under the chairmanship of his highly esteemed friend Mr. M. S. Khan, the then Librarian of the Dacca University. This gave the present author an opportunity to have a better idea of the subject under review here and accordingly he published two papers consecutively on Muslim Libraries in Spain in the Journal of Pakistan Historical Society, Karachi, 1959, which later appeared as Memoir under the title Hispano- Arab Libraries, Karachi, 1960. He also published another article on Paper Manufacture in Muslim Spain in the monthly Bulletin of Dacca University Library, Vol 1, No. 8. August 1958, edited by the same librarian.