Highlights from Special Collections, Rare Book Libraries, & Museum Repositories
This section presents highlights from the exceptional collections I have had the privilege to study, encompassing manuscripts, rare texts, paintings, and other treasures from museums and university special collections. I hope that exploring these treasures will offer new insights and inspire curiosity, just as they have informed and guided my own research.
Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt (BV 201) North Africa, 18th century
Qiṣṣah-i Candar Badan - قصہ چندر بدن
A Late Sixteenth-Century Copy of the Divan of Urfi Shirazi
The Rare Illuminated Qur’an of Siyu: A Masterpiece from the Swahili Coast at UCLA Fowler Museum
“A Timurid-Era Copy of Niẓāmī’s Khamsah: Manuscript BV 51 from Shiraz (ca. 1405–1414)” «نسخهای تیمو
BV 69 (Muṣḥaf Jalīl Fīhi…): A Tenth-Century Arabic Manuscript from Sinai
Europeans in a Mughal Setting -
UCLA Pilgrimage Scroll
