Karbala Shrine Completes Cataloging of 2,000 Rare Manuscripts

IQNA – The Intellectual and Cultural Affairs Department of the Shrine of Hazrat Abbas (AS) in Iraq's Karbala has completed the cataloging of 2,000 manuscripts from its library, officials announced.

Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah from the shrine’s Manuscript Imaging and Cataloging Center told Al-Kafeel: "Our center has meticulously cataloged 2,000 manuscripts preserved in the library of the shrine of Imam Abbas (AS)."

He explained that the manuscripts have been documented in four published volumes, with a fifth section currently in production. 

"Each entry includes the manuscript’s title, author, date of transcription, and origin," Abdullah noted, adding that "particularly significant texts—such as Qurans, copies of Nahj al-Balagha, and Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya—have been highlighted due to their importance to researchers."

The center has also digitized catalogs from public and private libraries worldwide, hosting them on a dedicated platform called the "Digital Reference for Manuscript Heritage." Abdullah stated that the database now contains "100,606 cataloged entries."

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