نسخه هاي خطي مدينه منوره

The Sub-Continental Manuscripts in the Libraries of Medina

This is a Persian translation of an Urdu article published in the Fekr o Nazar, Islam Abad, Vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 83-116 + 117-122. The author who had published Madan al-Durar (jjJI j-w) in Tehran, several years ago, paid a visit to the Library of Abd al-Aziz during his pilgrimage to Medina, Syria, where he could find a similar manuscript of Madan al-Durar among the manuscripts of Aref Hekmatʹs collection of books. The first part of the paper gives a description of this manuscript. Thanks to the good behavior of a helpful librarian, the author can have a look over some other manuscripts of which he is speaking in the next part of the paper. Furthermore, he introduces a library called Maktaba Malek Abd al-Aziz, and gives the titles of the manuscripts preserved in some of its important book- storages. The third part of the paper describes the collection of Sheikh Aref Hekmat, which is a religiously endowment and is considered as the most important treasure in the library of Malek Abd al-Aziz. The next parts of the paper offer alphabetically the lists of manuscripts preserved in various collections, including the collection of Malek Abd al-Aziz. Finally, a report on the library of the Al-Nabavi Mosque concludes the paper