Balapur,
Khanqah-i Naqshbandiyah
Balapur, Akola 444302
Introduction: This is the private library of the Sajjada nashin of the shrine of Naqshbandi order of Sufis.
Catalog (s): Hadi Naqshbandi, :List of Manuscripts of Shah Inayat Allah Library,” Khuda Bakhsh Library Journal 107 (1997): 59-70. Contains 278 Persian and Arabic manuscripts.
Mumbai
Anjuman-i Islam Urdu Research Institute
Karimi Library
92 DN Road Mumbai-400 001
Introduction:
Belonging to and named after Qazi Abdulkarim of Porebandar, this
has nearly 40 Arabic, Persian, and Urdu manuscripts. See the introduction by Hamid
Allah Nadwi , “Karimi Library,” Nawa-i Adab
(January 1950): 73-79; Nizam al-Din Gorekar, “Mashriqi Ulum ka ek Qadim
Kutub Khanah,” Burhan (
The Asiatic Society
Town Hall
Mumbai 400 023
Website URL http://education.vsnl.com/asbl
Introduction:
The Society was established in 1804, as a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
in
Catalog (s): A.A. A. Fyzee, “ Descriptive List of the Arabic, Persian and Urdu Mss in the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society,” Journal of the Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 3 (1927): 1-43; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fyzee Collection of Ismaili Manuscripts, edited by Moiz Goriawala, (Bombay: University of Bombay, 1965)
Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya
(Formerly Prince of
Mumbai 400023
Introduction:
This is western
It contains some manuscripts, notably the illustrated Persian manuscript called Anis al-Haj. See Sadashiv Gorakhshar, “Anis al-Haj,” pp. 120-130, in An Age of Splendor, Islamic Art in India, edited by Saryu Doshi, (Bombay: Marg, 1983).
Bharat Itihasa Samshodhaka Mandala
1321 Sadashivpeth
Introduction:
This center for Indian history was established in 1910. The center has Persian
manuscripts and documents such as farmans,
royal edicts relating to Indian history. An introduction is by B.M. Gupta, “Bharat Itihasa Samshodhaka Mandala,” pp.
293-300, in Handbook of Libraries, Archives & Information Centers in
Catalog (s): “Fihrist-i Makhtutat-i Kitab Khanah-yi Bharat Itihasa Samshodhaka Mandala,” Khuda Bakhsh Library Journal 106 (1996): 218-234. This article pertains to the collection of Dr. Abd al-Haq of Pune.
Works on the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
Aftabi, Tarif-i Husain Shah, Badshah of Dakhan, edited by G.T. Kulkarni and M.S. Mate, (Pune: Bharat Itihasa Samsodhaka Mandala, 1987)
K.R. Cama Oriental Institute
Fort, Mumbai 400023
Introduction: It is a Parsi
institution and also houses the library of Mulla Firuz. Mulla Firuz,
(d. 1833), visited
Catalog (s): Catalogue raisonne of the Arabic, Hindustani, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Mulla Firuz Library, edited by Edward Rehatsek, (Bombay: Education Society’s Press, 1873); Supplementary Catalogue of Arabic, Hindustani, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts…, edited by Syed Abdullah Brelvi, and B.N. Dhabhar, (Bombay, 1917); Author’s Catalogue of Printed and Lithographed Books and Some Manuscripts of the Molla Feroze Library, (Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1928) and
A Catalogue of Mss Belonging to the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, edited by.B.N. Dhabhar, (Bombay, 1917); “Manuscripts Presented by Dr. Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi to the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute,” Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute 31 (1937): 132-155; Fihrist-i Nuskhah’ha-yi khatti-i Farsi-i Bambai: Kitabkhanah-i Muassasah-i Kama, Ganjinah-i Manakji, edited by Sayyid Mahdi Gharavi, (Islamabad: Markaz-i Tahqiqat-i Farsi-i Iran wa Pakistan, 1986).
Works
about the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
Nur al-Said Akhtar, “Firdawsi- I Maharashtra: Mulla Firuz…” Danish 56/57 (Bahar va Tabistan 1999): 230-238 ; S. Mahdi Gharavi, « Two Noteworthy Manuscripts of al-Biruni’s al-Tafhim,” Islamic Culture 49, 4 (October 1975): 215-219.
Mumbai 400049
Introduction: Founded by a colonial administrator-scholar Alexander K. Forbes, (1821-65) in the 1860s for the promotion of western Indian studies.
Catalog (s): Pharbasa Gujarati Sabha, Mumbaina Pharasi hastalikhita granthoni namavali, edited by Muhmmad Umar Kokil, (Bombay : The Sabha, 1950). The catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Gujarati language and script.
Jama Masjid Library
Introduction:
The Jama Masjid was built
in the early 19th century.
The library forms part of the Madrasah-i Muhammadiyah, which began in 1903. See the introduction by Nizam al-Din Gorekar, “Mashriqi Ulum ka ek Qadim Kutub
Khanah,” Burhan (
Number of Manuscripts: 1,200
Catalog (s): Fihrist-i Kutubkhanah-i Madrasah-i Muhammadiya mutalliq-i Jama Masjid, Bombay, 1922); Descriptive Catalogue of Urdu Manuscripts, edited by Hamidullah Nadwi, (Bombay: Anjuman-i Islam Urdu Research Institute, 1956; reprinted in Nairobi, Kenya by Kokan Urdu Writers’ Circle, 1990)
Yervada
Pune
411006
Introduction:
The Museum houses the manuscripts of the old
Catalog (s): Chand Husayn Shaykh, “A Descriptive Hand List of Arabic, Persian and Hindustani Manuscripts Belonging to the Satara Historical Museum…” Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute 4, 3 (1943): 246-262.
Number of manuscripts: 18
Works
about the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
Gulshan Khakee, “Note on the Imam Shahi
Mss at the
Muhammad Mahdi Tavvasuli, “Maarafi muzah-i tarikhi’-i Maratah,” Danish (
Introduction: The University of Mumbai dates from 1857 when it began as University of Bombay, the name was changed in the 1990s. Its library contains collections donated by families such as the Khatkhates, and scholars like Shaykh Abd al-Qadir Sarfaraz and Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee.
Catalog (s): A Descriptive Catalog of the Arabic, Persian and Urdu Manuscripts in the Library of University of Bombay, edited by Shaikh Abdul Qadir Sarafaraz, (Bombay: Dar al-Qayyimah Press, 1935); Sayyid Nawab Ali, “Bambai University ki Fihrist-i Makhtutat,” Maarif (Azamgarh) July 1936: 43-56; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fyzee Collection of Ismaili Manuscripts, edited by M. Goriawala, (Bombay: University of Bombay, 1965);A. A. A. Fyzee, “A Collection of Fatimid Manuscripts,” pp. 209-220, in Comparative Librarianship: Essays in Honor of D.N. Marshall, edited by N.N. Gidwani, (New Delhi:Vikas, 1973)
Works on
the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
Shaykh Abdul Qadir Sarfaraz, “ Two Unique Persian Manuscripts in the
University Library,” Journal of the University of Bombay (Arts &
Law) 2, 2, part 6 (May 1934): 113-126, which refers to the diwans
of Saib and Zuhuri of Bijapur; Muhammad Ali,
The whereabouts of two collections are unknown, see, Fihrist-i Kitab Khanah mawsum bih Kashf al-Hajib…dar Idarah-yi Mirza Khan Malik al-Kuttab Shirazi, (Bomaby, 1900); and Muhammad Hamidullah, “Literary Treasures of Aurangabad: Two Important Treasures of Manuscripts,” Islamic Culture 16 (1942): 449-456.