The Islamic Studies Library is currently displaying an exhibition featuring a fascinating selection of Arabic lithographed books from McGill Islamic Rare Books Collection. This Collection includes many examples of lithographed books in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu, dated from the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century. The Arabic lithographed books exhibition includes sixteen items encompassing the different periods, calligraphic styles, graphic designs, and publishing houses from the Muslim world and Europe.

The physical exhibition is freely accessible in the Islamic Studies Library during opening hours from April 1^st to September 30^th 2014. In addition, all 16 items have been digitized, and are now accessible online. Let us know what you think!

• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Kitāb Zubdat al-uṣūl. [Īrān : s.n., 1267 [1851].
• Aṭṭafayyish, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1820 or 1821-1914. Risālah shāfiyah fī baʻd al-tawārīkh. [al-Jazāʼir] : [Bakīr ibn Qāsim al-Qarārī], 1299 [1881 or 1882]].
• Bakrī, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh. Hādhā Kitāb Ghazwat al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ; maʻa al-laʻīn al-Huḍām al-Ḥajjāfī li-sabʻ ḥuṣūn bi-al-tamām… [S.l. : s.n., 19–].
• Fattanī, Muḥammad Ṭāhir, 1504 or 5-1578 or 9. Hādhā kitāb mubārak jāmiʻ li-kashf maṭālib al-āyāt wa-al-āthār wa-īḍāḥ maʻānī kitāb Allāh wa-aḥādīth Rasūlihi al-mukhtār Majmaʻ biḥār al-anwār fī gharāʼib al-tanzīl wa-laṭāʼif al-akhbār. Lakʹhnaw : Nawal Kishawr, 1283 [1867].
• Ibn ʻArabshāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1392-1450. ʻAjāʾib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr, al-maʻrūf bi-Taʾrīkh Tīmūr. Lāhūr : Maṭbaʻ Sarkārī, 1868.
• Ibn ʻĀṣim, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1359-1426. Ḥadāʼiq al-azāhīr fī mustaḥsan al-ajwibah wa-al-muḍḥikāt wa-al-ḥikam wa-al-amthāl wa-al-ḥikāyāt wa-al-nawādir. [Fez? : s.n., 19–].
• Ibn ʻAzzūz, Muḥammad Makkī ibn Muṣṭafá, 1853 or 4-1915 or 16. al-Sayf al-rabbānī fī ʻunuq al-muʻtariḍ ʻalá al-Ghawth al-Jīlānī. Bambay : Maṭbaʻ Datt Parshād, 1313 [1895 or 1896].
• Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.Risālah min rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ wa-khullān al-murūwah wa-al-wafāʼ : qad ishtamalat ʻalá mā dāra bayna al-ins wa-al-ḥayawānāt min al-munāẓarah al-murattabah ʻalá badāʼiʻ al-aqwāl wa-al-mukhāṣamāt / bi-idārah Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Wāḥid. Kānfūr : Maṭbaʻah al-Intiẓāmī 1894.
• Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 957 or 8. Kitāb al-Aqālīm. Gothae : In Libraria Beckeriana, 1839.
• Jawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1131-1192. al-Shajarah al-Muḥammadīyah.[Istanbul?] : Maṭbaʻat Muḥammad wa-Burhān al-Dīn, 1331 [1913].
• Jazāʾirī, Niʻmat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1640 or 41-1701. Nūr al-anwār fī sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah. [Tehran : s.n.], 1316-1317 [1898 or 1899].
• Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, d. 1465. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt ; wa-yalīhi qaṣīdat al-Burdah wa-qaṣīdat al-Munfarijah wa-bi-hāmishihi majmuʻat al-awrād wa-al-aḥzāb wa-al-adʻīyah. [Istānbūl?] : al-Maṭbaʻah al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1302 [1884].
• Qazwīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Bāqir, 1799 or 1800-1847 or 8. [Ḍawābiṭ al-uṣūl]. [Tehran? :  s.n.], 1271 [1854 or 1855].
• Tūnisī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. Hādhā kitāb Tashhīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān. Paris  Duprat, 1850.
• Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, 1702 or 3-1762 or 3. Fatḥ al-khabīr. Lak hanaʼu : Munshī Nawal Kishūr, 1314 [1896 or 1897].
• Yūsī, al-Ḥasan ibn Masʻūd, 1630 or 1631-1691. Qānūn yashtamilu ʻalá aḥkām al-ʻilm wa-aḥkām al-ʻālim wa-al-mutaʻallim wa-mā yataʻallaqu bi-shayʼ min dhālika ʻalá wajh al-ishārah. [Fès] : ʻAlá dhimmat al-ʻArabī al-Azraq, 1310 [1892 or 1893].