About the Repository

The IIUM Digital Manuscript contains digitized manuscripts within the collections of the Dar al-Hikmah Library, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

The Library is proud of its manuscript collections which mostly are in Arabic, Persian, Malay, Urdu, and others. The main collections are on Islamic Manuscripts and Malay Manuscript from the collections of School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), British Library, Yahuda, Minggana, Helmult Ritter, Maktabah Makkah al-Mukarramah, Dawoodi and Gazi Huzrey-Bey.

For the digital manuscript, the public can have access to the first 10 pages of each manuscript title or some teaser pages. For the full texts of the manuscripts, external members or visitors can access them on the dedicated computers at the library, either at the Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Library or the Gombak Campus Library.

Request for reproduction of pages can be made through ILL and Document Delivery Service at the email iiulib2@iium.edu.my.

All IIUM community who login through Central Authentication Service (CAS) will have access to the full text, except for certain restricted titles.