Qadiriya Sufi Prayer Manuscript: A 16th-Century Digital Master Copy

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2020.0021 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Kitab Salat al-Qadiriyya al-Sufiyya' and is attributed to al-Sudi, Abd al-Hadi, dating to approximately 1525 or 1526. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Digitization and preservation of historical manuscripts based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Text analysis of Sufi prayer rituals based on the manuscript's content.
• Historical and paleographic study of 16th-century Arabic manuscripts based on the date and author attribution.
• Training optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on the high-resolution images.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suggesting detailed visual fidelity.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Explicit date and author attribution (c. 1525/1526, al-Sudi, Abd al-Hadi).
• Published under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

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.
• The 3.0 GB size indicates a large file, but the specific content structure (rows, columns) is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digital scanning of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

c. 1525-1526 (manuscript creation).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 06:34:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely related to the Islamic world, specific region unknown.