Mukhtasar Fi Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah: A 14th Century Arabic Manuscript Biography

5.5 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2018.0012 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Mukhtasar Fi Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah' and was authored by Ibn Jamāʿah, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (1241-1333). The dataset was last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze the structure and content of a classical Islamic biographical text.
• Study the paleography and calligraphy of a 14th-century manuscript.
• Create digital scholarly editions of historical texts from high-quality scans.

Strengths

• 5.5 GB high-resolution digital master copy suggests detailed image files.
• Manuscript is from a known heritage collection (QNL) with a specific catalog record.
• Author and date of the original work (1241-1333) are explicitly provided.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect the specific biases inherent to a single manuscript source.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.2018.0012.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Original manuscript authored between 1241 and 1333 CE.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 09:23:59; freshness should be verified.