Durar Al-Hukkam Fi Sharh Ghurar Al-Ahkam: A 15th Century Islamic Law Manuscript

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01405 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Durar Al-Hukkam Fi Sharh Ghurar Al-Ahkam' and was authored by Muhammad ibn Faramurz Mulla Khusraw, who died in 1480. The 3.7 GB dataset provides access to the digitized pages of this historical Islamic legal commentary.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Digital preservation and analysis of 15th-century Islamic legal texts.
• Linguistic analysis of classical Arabic legal terminology and commentary.
• Comparative study of manuscript illumination and scribal practices.
• Training image segmentation models to separate text from manuscript margins and decorations.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detail preservation for scholarly analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing authoritative provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license for maximum reuse.

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; detailed content analysis requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01405.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

The original work is attributed to an author who died in 1480, suggesting a 15th-century origin.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 08:56:01; freshness should be verified.