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Hazrat Pir Mohammad Shah Library

Summary

The Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Library is a library on Pir Muhammad Shah Road, Pankore Naka, Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India. One of the oldest libraries in India, it has a collection of rare original manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Turkish languages.

History edit

The library is located within the precincts of the tomb-shrine complex of Pir Muhammad Shah, a Sufi who was born in Bijapur in 1688 and migrated to Ahmedabad in 1711, where he died in 1749. He belonged to the Qadiri Shattari Sufi order. The library started with book that Muhammad Shah himself had brought from Arabia, and then was expanded by his disciples with books that they had acquired locally and abroad.[1][2][3]

Prominent writer and scholar Professor Mohyiuddin Bombaywala has held the post of director since last 30 years.[4][5] Dr. Ziauddin A. Desai, the well-known numismatist and scholar, was associated with the Library and its governing trust until his death in 2002.

Catalogues edit

Arabi, Farsi, Urdu makhtūtāt kī wadahatī fihrist, 10 vols., (Ahmedabad: Pir Muhammad Shah Dargah Sharif Trust) 1998. Shaykh Farid al-Din Burhanpuri, d. 1998, "Kutub khanah-yi Dargah Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah," Nawa-i Adab (October 1955); Taher, Amin Ahmed Khan, and Muhammed Burhanuddin, "Dargah Libraries in India: A Comparative Study," International Library Journal 18 (1986): 337–345; Z. A. Desai, "Some Rare Seal-Bearing Persian Manuscripts in the Hazrat P. M. Dargah Library," Indo-Iranica 46, l-lv (1993): 52–73. Works on the history or individual manuscripts in the Library: published 6 journals. 12 catalogues.

References edit

  1. ^ Qureshi, Muhammad Zuber (1985). "The History of Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah at Ahmadabad". In Troll, Christian W. (ed.). Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Vikas. pp. 282–300.
  2. ^ Allauddin, Shaikh; Rout, R. K. (1996). Libraries and librarianship during Muslim rule in India. Reliance Pub. House. p. 109. ISBN 978-81-85972-95-4.
  3. ^ Bombaywala, Mohaiuddin (2003). "Arabic-Persian Scholarship: Medieval Manuscripts at the Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Dargah Sharif Library". In Balasubrahmanyan, Suchitra; Sagara, Sharmila (eds.). Ahmedabad 600: Portraits of a City. Marg. pp. 54–55.
  4. ^ "New chapter for Pir Mohammad Shah Library". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Doors close at Pir Muhammad Shah Library which houses 300-year-old manuscripts". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 December 2019.

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