Arabic Manuscripts: popular novels

Project object

This project involves the digitisation of a segment of the Arabic manuscript tradition that represents an important section of Arabic literature: the so-called folk or heroic novels. The collection to be digitised comprises about 800 volumes described in the 8th volume of Wilhelm Ahlwardt's catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (1896). 

Project term

January 2020 - December 2022

Project participant(s)

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Third-party-funding

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Contact

Christoph Rauch 
Orient
Head of department
phone: +49 30 266 435 800
christoph.rauch@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Read more about the project

• Katalog der arabischen Handschriften von Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1896), Band 8
• Digitalisierungsprojekte der Abteilung