QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00229: Questions and Answers on Islamic Theology

Qatar National Library provides a 601.6 MB high-resolution digital master copy of a manuscript from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'مسائل وأجوبة في علم التوحيد' (Questions and Answers on Islamic Theology), is authored by Abu al-Nasr ibn 'Izz al-Din. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze theological discourse and question-answer formats in classical Islamic texts.
• Conduct digital preservation and text analysis on heritage manuscripts from the Gulf region.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy of a physical manuscript.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.00229).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 09:59:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Qatar (source institution).