Library at Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts and works by Avicenna

 Library at Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts and works by Avicenna

The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts housed by one of the Suleymaniye madrasas was opened on April 14, 1914.

 Its collection comprises 2,251 volumes of manuscripts in Arabic, Farsi and Turkic.

The museum's library contains unique mushafs and richly decorated manuscripts from the Islamic period.

Currently, the library has no systematic card index for handwritten works.

The manuscripts are written in an elegant calligraphic script.

 One of the manuscripts contains a wonderful miniature about the treatment of a patient by Ibn Sina (Avicenna) made to a copy of Chakhor Makola (Four Articles) written in 1431 in Herat by Nizami Aruzi Samarkandi (XII).

Manuscripts by our great ancestor featuring beautiful examples of calligraphy and miniature painting are represented in the three collections mentioned above.

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