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Collection |
Holdings |
Comments |
Contacts |
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BAGHDAD COLLECTIONS |
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Dar al-Makhtutat al-‘Iraqiyya /
Iraqi House of Manuscripts
[formerly Dar Saddam lil-Makhtutat
/ Saddam House of Manuscripts] |
47,000 own MSS,
3,000 other MSS from the Academy,
Mosul, Tikrit, Kirkuk, Basra |
Collection transferred to Shelter
#12, Hayy Dakhiliyya; preservation facilities looted. |
Osama Naqshbandi
Ms. Dhamya
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Maktabat al-Awqaf al-Markaziyya /
Ministry of Endowments & Religious
Affairs Central Library |
7000 MSS. |
Ca. 5250 MSS transferred to
undisclosed location,
Ca. 600-700 MSS burned,
Ca. 1000-1100 MSS looted
Facility burned. |
Buthayna ‘Abd Allah Qaysi
Hasan Freih
Salah Karim
Baqir Hamid
Muhib al-Din Yasin
‘Abd al-Karim Sa’id, |
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National Library & Archive /
Dar al-Kutub wa al-Watha’iq |
12 million documents, published
books. |
Facility looted & burned.
Rumors of some docs saved. |
Ra’ad Bardar |
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Bayt al-Hikma /
House of Wisdom |
100 MSS,
US, French, Ottoman, UK document copies |
Facility looted & burned.
Some MSS may re-surface. |
Adnan Yasin Mustafa,
‘Abd al-Jabbar Naji |
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Iraqi Academy of Sciences /
Al-Majma’ al-‘Ilmi al-Iraqi
|
2000 MSS,
58,000 published books. |
Facility looted, but not burned.
Ca. 80% books looted,
Some MSS returned. |
Mahmud Hayyawi,
Ms. Juwan, “Umm Ibrahim,” Muhammad
Khudeir ‘Abbas,
Khalid Khadr Qadir,
Jalil Wahhab Salim. |
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Qadiriyya Mosque Collection |
1883 MSS |
OK |
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Deir al-Aba al-Krimliyin
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120 MSS |
Christian MSS, OK? |
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Maktabat al-Hidaya, Baghdad? |
500 MSS |
Condition unknown |
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Univ. of Baghdad Central Library /
Al-Maktaba al-Markaziyya |
research collection of published
works |
OK. |
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Mustansiriyya University Medical
School Library |
medical textbooks, research
publications |
OK |
Walid al-Hashimi |
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Mustansiriyya University Main
Library |
research collection of published
works |
Looted. |
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Baghdad Medical College Library |
medical textbooks, research
publications |
Looted. |
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PROVINCIAL COLLECTIONS |
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Deir Mar Behnam, Mosul |
unknown number of Christian MSS |
Reportedly moved to al-Dura
neighborhood of Baghdad |
Yusuf Habbi |
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Maktabat Karakosh, Mosul |
unknown MSS number |
Condition unknown
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Deir Mar Matti, Mosul |
unknown number of Christian MSS |
Reportedly moved to al-Dura
neighborhood of Baghdad |
Yusuf Habbi |
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Madrasat al-Jalili, Mosul |
400 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat Mahmud al-Jalili, Mosul |
60 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat al-Mufti, Arbil |
120 MSS |
OK? |
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Salah al-Din University, Arbil |
402 MSS |
OK?, published catalogue |
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Maktabat al-Awqaf, Sulaymaniya |
6000 MSS |
OK? |
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Al-Shaykh Muhammad al-Khal,
Sulaymaniya |
350 MSS |
Includes rare MSS, OK? |
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Dar al-Makhtutat in Mosque of
Hussein, Karbala |
1200 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat Amir al-Mu’iminin, Najaf |
3000 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat al-Hakim, Najaf |
1600 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat Kashif al-Ghita, Najaf |
3000 MSS |
OK? |
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Maktabat Al-Jamal al-Din, Suq al-Shuyukh,
Nasiriyya |
180 MSS |
Condition unknown |
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Cleric’s Private Collection,
Diwaniyya |
300 MSS |
Condition unknown. |
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Bash A’yan al-‘Abbasiyya, Basra |
1200 MSS |
OK? |
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