The Zaydani Library (Arabic: الخزانة الزيدانية, Al-Khizāna Az-Zaydāniyya) or the Zaydani Collection is a collection of manuscripts originally belonging...

Zidan Abu Maali to flee Marrakesh for Agadir. During this move, the Zaydani Library of manuscripts was lost to Spanish privateers, and eventually made...

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...

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...

store shoplifting Convicted book-thieves Library book vandalism List of destroyed libraries Zaydani Library, a whole collection of Arabic manuscripts...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

remain in Moroccan royal libraries today. Another major and important collection of royal manuscripts, the Zaydani Library, was taken from Sultan Moulay...

which was carrying the entire collection of manuscripts from the Zaydani Library, belonging to the Moroccan Sultan Muley Zidan. The manuscripts were...

interruptions until the mid-19th century. In the mid-17th century, the Zaydani family became a formidable force in northern Palestine. Initially, its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...