{"id":810,"date":"2013-02-08T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=810"},"modified":"2013-03-15T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T11:45:51","slug":"810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/810\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic Studies Library (ISL) was founded in 1952 in conjunction with the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS). Dr. W.C. Smith, founder and first Director of the IIS sought to give greater definition to the field of Islamic studies. The library has grown from a collection of 250 books to 125,000 volumes. On display are some of the treasures from its collection and history. For example in 1959 the former President of Tunisia, Habib Bourghuiba visited the IIS and ISL and donated a Qur\u2019\u0101nic leaf, in 1971 the former Shah of Iran sent a personal invitation to then Director of the IIS, Dr. Charles J. Adams. We also have on display one volume from the complete holdings of the journal of al-Azhar in Cairo. Dr. W.C. Smith\u2019s Ph.D. dissertation was an analysis of these publications.<\/p>\n<p>Come one, come all!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2013\/02\/ISL_History2013.pdf\">ISL_History2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic Studies Library (ISL) was founded in 1952 in conjunction with the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS). Dr. W.C. Smith, founder and first Director of the IIS sought to give greater definition to the field of Islamic studies. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/810\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-events","category-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}