Najah Al-Fattah fi Sharh Al-Miftah: A 14th-Century Arabic Legal Manuscript from Qatar

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02440 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The 7.4 GB archive contains a 14th-century work titled 'Najah Al-Fattah fi Sharh Al-Miftah' authored by Ali bin Al-Hussein bin Al-Qasim (1282-1354). The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and last updated on May 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models on high-resolution images of classical Arabic script.
• Analyze the structure and calligraphy of historical legal manuscripts based on the digitized pages.
• Conduct textual analysis on the commentary (sharh) of the foundational legal text 'Al-Miftah'.
• Develop image segmentation models to separate text, marginalia, and decorations in heritage documents.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.02440).
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited to basic catalog information; data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored between 1282 and 1354 (7th-8th century Hijri).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 07:17:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely associated with the Arab/Islamic scholarly tradition; held in Qatar.