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• Dīwān Tāj al-ʻārifīn wa-sulṭān al-ʻāshiqīn min al-shuʻarāʼ bi-lā muʻāriḍ ʻUmar ibn Fāriḍ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1875), by ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān selections and prayers]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Dalāʼil al-khayrāt]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Devotional book] (Columbia University Libraries, 1757), by David Eugene Smith, Ḥusayn Būsnawī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Devotional book] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Ṣaḥīfah al-kāmilah (Columbia University Libraries, 1702), by David Eugene Smith, Zayn al-'Abidin 'Ali ibn al-Husayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār (Columbia University Libraries, 1835), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Ḥasan Niyāzī Afandīʹzādah Muḥammad Amīn Ḥilmī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1817), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Wahbī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by George A. Plimpton and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1820), by Maḥmud Mīrzā Qājār, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Two mounted Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and Mottahedeh Resht (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf with ghazal of Ḥāfiẓ]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Columbia University Libraries, 1688), by Omar Khayyam, David Eugene Smith, active 1688 Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1809), by Dāmād Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf Sayyid ʻUthmān, Muṣṭafá Rifqī, Harry G. Friedman, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Devotional book]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Ottoman Turkish expansion on al-Būṣīrī's qaṣīdat al-Burdah] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by ʻAbd Allāh Wahbī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubʻ min Dalāʼil al-khayrāt. (Columbia University Libraries, 1870), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Saʻd Fiqī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Mavāhib-i ilāhī] (Columbia University Libraries, 1431), by Muʻīn al-Dīn Yazdī, active 1810 Muḥammad Ṣadr al-Dīn, active 1431 Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Kāfiyah] (Columbia University Libraries, 1581), by ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib, Helen R. Hull, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Prayer in the form of praise of the Prophet] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muḥammad al-Miṣrī Maḥallāwī, Helen R. Hull, Ayyūb Shamʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn Dāghtānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• İlm-i hâl (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Helen R. Hull and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ḥamlah-i Ḥaydarī. (Columbia University Libraries, 1831), by Muhammad Rafīʻ ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī Bāz̲il, King Lawrence Parker, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār. (Columbia University Libraries, 1836), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, Morris Harold Saffron, Khalīl al-Shākir Afandī, Ḥasan Shawqī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qaṣāʼid-i Fārsī (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by Sherwood Waldron and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Makhzan al-asrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Dīvān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1775), by Sayyid Aḥmad Hātif and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anvār-i Suhaylī. (Columbia University Libraries, 1816), by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, Alexander Smith Cochran, Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Persian calligraphy and illustration album]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Carl Reinhardt, Ḥusayn Tabrīzī, active 1658 Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥasanī, active 1716 Ibn Muḥammad Riz̤ā Muḥammad, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ wa-siyar al-mulūk (Columbia University Libraries, 1574), by Muḥammad Juvayrī, Carl Reinhardt, Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad Kātib, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1537), by David Eugene Smith, Burhān ibn Waḥīd Khawāfī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1602), by David Eugene Smith, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Tabrīzī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Calligraphy samples in Persian]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1823), by Fadwá Gulāb Rāʼī, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1849), by Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī ʻAlāʼī, active 1849 Sayyid Muṣṭafá, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adʻiyah (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar Ṭūsī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1350), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Sūrat al-Anʻām]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Devotional book]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Collection of Persian poetry]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1432), by Saʻīd Nafīsī, Kitābfurūsh Mīrzā ʻAlī Aṣghar, active 1432 ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Ḥallāj Busḥāq Aṭʻimah Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, Fakhr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Ibn Yamīn, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī, Bisāṭī Samarqandī, Salmān Sāvajī, active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sharḥ Ḥizb al-Nawawī (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Otto W. Fuhrmann, Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, Nawawī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

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