Maktabat al-Ḥasan ibn Qāsim al-Sirājī

Private collection of a Zaydī scholarly family in Yemen. Prepared for upload by the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; funding provided by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation. The al-Sirājī library includes 62 manuscripts on a variety of topics such as Zaydī law, hadith, and theology, along with numerous examples of poetry. The oldest dated manuscript in the collection is a commentary on the Qurʼan from 1426 (ZMT 02999), but there are several undated manuscripts that are likely significantly older. On the other hand, some manuscripts in the collection were produced as recently as 2002 (ZMT 02973), generally containing texts by members of the al-Sirājī family themselves. The al-Sirājī family originates from the town of Ḥūth, and several manuscripts contain important genealogical information on the notable families of Ḥūth, accompanied by complex family tree diagrams.