{"id":4575,"date":"2021-08-23T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:04:56","slug":"university-of-utahs-j-willard-marriot-library-middle-east-digitized-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/university-of-utahs-j-willard-marriot-library-middle-east-digitized-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriot Library: Middle East Digitized Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriot Digital Library offers over 350 digital collections<\/a>, containing over 1 million digital photographs, maps, books, videos, audio recordings, and other items. Among these collections are the Middle East Digitized Collections.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

I.<\/span><\/strong> <\/strong><\/span>ARABIC PAPYRUS, PARCHMENT, AND PAPER<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
The Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection is the largest of its kind in the United States, The collection was acquired by Prof. Aziz Suriyal Atiya, founder of the Middle East Center and the Middle East Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time Period:<\/strong> A large number of pieces date to the period between 700 and 850 CE. The collection includes a significant number of documents from the pre-Ottoman period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection size:<\/strong> It contains 770 Arabic papyrus<\/a> documents, 1300 Arabic paper<\/a> documents, and several pieces on parchment<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coverage:<\/strong> A unique source on the political, economic, religious and intellectual life of Egypt during the first two centuries of Islamic rule and the period up to Ottoman domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n