The Foundation is launching its library digitization project to be completed in 2027, to provide academics, researchers and manuscript enthusiasts open access to the Hafiz Ahmed Agha Library’s priceless manuscript collection.

Our digital library collection will have entries with comprehensive bibliography and images of the works for 2188 manuscripts that are preserved in 1265 bound volumes in Ottoman, Arabic and Persian languages.

On this page, one can explore selected works from the library, a preview of how each of the collection’s manuscripts will be eventually presented on the digital platform when it is completed.

We would like to thank the FSMVU Center for Manuscript Studies and our friends, the Center’s director Dr. Sami Arslan and specialists, Gülsüm Gülsev Şanver and Elif Derin, for their commitment and meticulous work in preparing the catalogue entries.

Özgür Yavuz, Görkem Özen, Cem Dulda and Murat Taşpınar from Sinaps Communication, who implemented the web project of our Foundation, also developed the design of our catalog of selected works in accordance with our needs. We thank them very much.