• The Zaydani Library (Arabic: الخزانة الزيدانية, Al-Khizāna Az-Zaydāniyya) or the Zaydani Collection is a collection of manuscripts originally belonging...
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  • Zidan Abu Maali to flee Marrakesh for Agadir. During this move, the Zaydani Library of manuscripts was lost to Spanish privateers, and eventually made...
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  • Library is a collection of thousands of Islamic manuscripts from Timbuktu. They were moved to Bamako for safekeeping due to the Mali War. The Zaydani...
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    pirate harbour of Salé in Morocco, in order to solve the affair of the Zaydani Library of Mulay Zidan. In 1630, Razilly was able to negotiate the purchase...
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  • store shoplifting Convicted book-thieves Library book vandalism List of destroyed libraries Zaydani Library, a whole collection of Arabic manuscripts...
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    experiments in Europe. The original Arabic text is preserved in the Zaydani Library at El Escorial, MS Arabic 1785. Of the estimated deaths due to the...
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    Luis Fajardo brought back the complete Zaydani library captured during his wars with Sultan Muley Zidán. The library reached its peak under Philip IV. In...
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  • Muhammad al-Jazuli's book of prayers Dala'il al-Khayrat. The Zaydani Library, the library of the Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali, was stolen by Spanish privateers...
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  • Wayback Machine, Western Histories Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de...
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    took it to Lisbon (then part of the Spanish Empire). In 1614, the Zaydani Library was transmitted to El Escorial. Moroccan diplomats have since asked...
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    remain in Moroccan royal libraries today. Another major and important collection of royal manuscripts, the Zaydani Library, was taken from Sultan Moulay...
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    Alaouite sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif. In 1612, Spanish privateers stole the Zaydani Library, a collection of an estimated 4,000 manuscripts in literature and science...
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  • which was carrying the entire collection of manuscripts from the Zaydani Library, belonging to the Moroccan Sultan Muley Zidan. The manuscripts were...
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    interruptions until the mid-19th century. In the mid-17th century, the Zaydani family became a formidable force in northern Palestine. Initially, its...
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    Bashir, who by then had appointed a fellow Sunni Muslim Qaysi, Umar al-Zaydani, as the subsidiary tax farmer of Safad. He also secured the allegiance...
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    under Emir Haydar, while Acre and its tax farm came under the rule of the Zaydani sheikh Zahir al-Umar in the mid-1740s. In 1775, when Jezzar Ahmed Pasha...
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    Its local prominence was headed by the sheikhs of the Zayadina (sing. Zaydani), a local family of multazims (limited-term tax farmers), in charge of...
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    in Mount Lebanon and installed the Qaysi sheikh Umar al-Zaydani of the Sunni Muslim Zaydani clan as the tax farmer of Safad and its region, while securing...
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    behalf of the Porte (imperial Ottoman government). In the 18th century, the Zaydani clan under the leadership of Zahir al-Umar ruled large parts of Palestine...
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    center in Galilee. In the 1720s, the Arab ruler Zahir al-Umar, of the Zaydani clan, fortified the town and made an agreement with the leader Nasif al-Nassar...
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    Bashir, who by then had appointed a fellow Sunni Muslim Qaysi, Umar al-Zaydani, as the subsidiary tax farmer of Safad. He also secured the allegiance...
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    Initially, al-Jazzar's power was effectively limited to Acre because Zahir's Zaydani kinsmen still controlled their fortress villages in the Galilee and challenged...
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    sheikh Zahir al-Umar of the local Arab Zaydan clan, whose father Umar al-Zaydani had been the governor and tax farmer of Safed in 1702–1706, wrested control...
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    Bashir, who by then had appointed a fellow Sunni Muslim Qaysi, Umar al-Zaydani, as the subsidiary tax farmer of Safad. He also secured the allegiance...
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