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Islamic manuscripts & rare books

Welcome - Merhaba - أهلا وسهلا - Hoşgeldiniz - خوش آمدید ! This guide details useful sources for the study of Islamic rare books and manuscripts. It focuses primarily on materials held at McGill, and projects realized by the Islamic Studies Library.

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MS RDB Persian 0024

"Gulistan" 19th century lacquer binding held at the McGill Rare Books and Special Collections - MS RBD Persian 0024

Romanization & transliteration

To search the Library catalogue, use the Library of Congress romanization tables  for ArabicOttoman TurkishPersian  and Urdu.

For other ALA-LC romanization Tables click here.

Suggested fonts for the romanization (including diacritics): Unicode fonts

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