Al-Fara'id Al-Sirajiyya: A 12th Century Islamic Inheritance Law Manuscript

A 1.8 GB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.00761 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Kitab al-Fara'id' or 'Al-Fara'id Al-Sirajiyya', was authored by Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Hanafi al-Sajawandi, who was active in the 12th century. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Training OCR models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Studying the evolution of Islamic inheritance law (fara'id) based on the manuscript's textual content.
• Analyzing paleographic features and scribal practices from the 12th century.
• Creating digital editions or translations of classical Islamic legal texts.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.00761).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored in the 12th century.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:04:14; freshness should be verified.