Islamic Museum (Jerusalem)

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Islamic Museum in Jerusalem

The Islamic Museum ( Arabic المتحف الإسلام, DMG al-Matḥaf al-Islāmī ; engl. Islamic Museum / Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif) is located in the Old City of Jerusalem near the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Haram al-Sharif ( Arabic الحرم الشريف, DMG al-ḥaram aš-šarīf  'the noble sanctuary') or Temple Mount ( הר הבית Har haBait ).

One of its current buildings was originally built in 1282 during the Mamluk period. Today's modern museum was founded in 1922 and moved to its current location in 1929.

The museum houses a larger collection of important Islamic manuscripts. The Ḥaram documents from the Mamluk period were rediscovered in the museum's holdings in the 1970s . It also houses a larger collection of Koran manuscripts.

The director of the Islamic Museum, Khader Salameh , is also the director of the library of the al-Aqsa mosque .

literature

  • Anne Saurat: Renovating two museums in Jerusalem. (The Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif; the Armenian Museum). In: Museum 34, 1982, pp. 239–242.
  • Max Küchler : Jerusalem. A handbook and study guide to the Holy City. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 254–257 ( online excerpt ).

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ i-epistemology.net: The Qu'ran Manuscripts in the al-Haram al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem ( Memento of 21 April 2014 Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Cataloged by Donald P. Little: A Catalog of the Islamic documents from Al-Ḥaram Aš-Šarif in Jerusalem. Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society, Beirut; Steiner, Wiesbaden 1984. Beirut texts and studies 29. ISBN 3-515-03699-7 (see table of contents ).
  3. ↑ Khader Salameh: The Qu'ran Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. 2001 ( Review ( Memento of April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
  4. ↑ Khadr Ibrahim Salamah , etc.
  5. ↑ Bookstore link

Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 33.9 "  N , 35 ° 14 ′ 5.3"  E