Open AccessArabic-speaking manuscript from Sterlibashevo
Author(s) -
А. М. Салахов
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
minbar. islamic studies/minbar. islamskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7990
pISSN - 2618-9569
DOI - 10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-4-819-832
Subject(s) - tatar , creed , islam , arabic , subject (documents) , persian , history , classics , poetry , linguistics , library science , computer science , philosophy , theology , archaeology
The article provides a concise description of a collection of texts in Arabic. The copy is preserved in the Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation. The copy originates from the Sterlibash district / Bashkortostan. The MS book comprises a collection of works on tajwid (recitation of the Holy Qur’an), Islamic creed and medicine. The aim of the publication is to introduce another hitherto unknown item, since the general descriptions available are far from being satisfactory. The item has entered the collection in 2017 under the shelfmark 7879 and assigned to the collection no. 39. The description offered provides titles of the work, their contents and authorship as well as the summary of the contents. The text in the MS was compared to the printed text of the same works (subject to availability). The cataloguer came to the conclusions as follows: the Tatars based their education on classical Islamic works in Arabic and Persian. The education was modelled after the system used in Central Asia. In the areas located remotely from the centres of education people also had a recourse to the texts, which comprised information, which was different from that from the “orthodox” writings. The Tatar medical writings used both local and classical medical texts.