Bibliography
This basic bibliography is provided for anyone interested in learning more about the Kairouan collection of manuscripts. Please send additional suggestions to kmp.csmc@uni-hamburg.de( kmp.csmc"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Online resources
Blog post on Kairouan Qurʾans by Eléonore Cellard and Saleh al-Mehdi ben Hammouda. (Published 30/4/2020)
English site of the Tunisian National Institute of Heritage
Print resources
Bayram, Muḥammad Bek. 1897. “al-Qayrawān.” Al-Muqtaṭaf. April 1 / 28 Shawwāl, 1314: 241-246.
Bloom, Jonathan. 2015. “The Blue Koran Revisited." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 6.2-3: 196-218.
Brockopp, Jonathan. 2005. “The Minor Compendium of Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (d. 214/829) and its reception in the early Mālikī school.” Islamic Law and Society 12.2: 149-81
Brockopp, Jonathan. 2017. Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Déroche, François. 1987-89. “Les manuscrits arabes datés du IIIe/IXe siècle.” Revue des Études Islamiques 55-57: 343-79.
Ketzer, Roswitha, 1991. "A conservation project in Kairouan." In Preprints: 7th International Congress of Restorers of Graphic Art, 26th–30th August 1991, Uppsala, Sweden. IADA, Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Archiv-, Bibliotheks- und Graphikrestauratoren, 119–127
Marçais, Georges and Louis Poinssot. 1948. Objets kairouanais. IXe au XIIIe siècle. Reliures, verreries, cuivres et bronzes, bijoux. Paris: Vuibert.
Muranyi, Miklos. 1984. Materialien zur mālikitischen Rechtsliteratur. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Muranyi, Miklos. 1997. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Ḥadīt und Rechtsgelehrsamkeit der Mālikiyya in Nordafrika bis zum 5. Jh. d.H. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Muranyi, Miklos. 2015. “Geniza or ḥubus: some observations on the library of the great mosque in Qayrawān.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 42: 183-200.
al-Nayyāl, Muḥammad al-Bahalī. 1963. Al-Maktaba al-athariyya bi-l-Qayrawān, Tunis.
Rambach, Arianna D’Ottone. 2017. “The Blue Koran. A Contribution to the Debate on Its Possible Origin and Date.” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 8.2: 127-43.
Schacht, Joseph. 1967. "On Some Manuscripts in the Libraries of Kairouan and Tunis." Arabica 14: 225-58.
Schwartz, Werner. 1986. Die Bibliothek der Großen Moschee von al‐Qayrawān / Tunesien: Vorarbeiten zu ihrer Geschichte. Unpublished thesis. Fachhochschule für Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen, Köln.
Shabbūḥ, Ibrahīm. 1956. "Sijill qadīm li-maktabat jāmiʿ al-Qayrawān." Revue de l'Institut des Manuscrits Arabes 2: 339-372.