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[Archery: Two Treatises]
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C33
Overview
This treatise consists of two texts, a secular manual that teaches and promotes the sport of archery and its use for the Muslim solider, so that he can become a superior human and athlete.
Dates:
1150 A.H. / 1737 C.E.
Ernest Manheim papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 373
Overview
Ernest Manheim joined the Sociology Department at the University of Kansas City, Missouri (now the University of Missouri-Kansas City) as a research scholar in 1938 before being appointed as a professor of Sociology at the same institution in 1940. In addition to his career in academia, Manheim was also a composer. This collection reflects his career as both a sociologist and composer, containing publications, manuscripts, research, compositions, and correspondence to and from Manheim, as...
Dates:
1900 - 2015
Letters, literary manuscripts, and personal papers of the Porter family
Collection
Call Number: MS 28
Overview
The Porter family papers consist of letters, literary manuscripts and personal papers of an English literary family from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Two-thirds of the almost 3000 items in the collection consists of the correspondence of the siblings, Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), Jane Porter (1776-1850), Anna Maria Porter (1778-1832), and other members of the Porter family.
Dates:
1750 - 1849
Yusuf and Zoleikha = یوسف و زلیخا
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A9
Overview
This illuminated manuscript is the poetic retelling of the Qur’anic story of Prophet Yusuf and the Zoleikha by the Persian 15th-century poet Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmi. The original story focuses on the life of Prophet Yusuf from his birthplace of Canaan to Egypt where he served the a high-level servant of the Pharaoh, Potiphar, and his wife. Potiphar's wife falls deeply in love with him, and Yusuf's faith is put to the test. Jami’s retelling is a romanticization of the original Qur’anic story; this...
Dates:
Poem originally written 888 A.H. / 1483 CE; this manuscript copy inscribed 17th century CE