الكافي في علم العروض والقوافي

A 244.7 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00264 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Al-Kafi fi 'Ilm al-'Arud wa al-Qawafi' (The Sufficient Book on the Science of Prosody and Rhymes), was authored by Ahmad bin 'Ibad bin Shu'ayb al-Qahiri in 1814. It was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and last updated on the figshare platform in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyzing the structure and rules of classical Arabic prosody ('arud) based on the manuscript's textual content.
• Studying the paleography and material culture of 19th-century Arabic manuscripts from the Cairo region.
• Creating digital scholarly editions or annotated corpora of historical works on Arabic literary theory.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suggesting detailed visual fidelity for research.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.00264).
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
• Specific author and creation date (Ahmad bin 'Ibad bin Shu'ayb al-Qahiri, 1814) are documented.

Limitations

• The ZIP file's internal structure, specific image formats, and total page count are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited to bibliographic details; data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00264.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored in 1814.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 10:42:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely Cairo, Egypt (author is identified as al-Qahiri).