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Graphic Guide of Alward Family Judges, Endowed Manuscripts
Migrants to Thula, Originally from Arhab and Pedigree of Alshakri
These Manuscripts are saved in the Manuscripts Library that belongs to the Ministry of Culture
in Sanaa, Republic of Yemen.
This guide is from the eight sections that make the filing documents for Alward Library in the
Manuscripts Library. This guide is prepared by those appointed from the ministry who specialize
in indexing and filing.

Visionary and Entrusted person for Alward Library When it was Filed in the Ministry:
Ahmed Ali Ahmed Mohammed Alward
Review and Financial Support:
PHD. Hussein Ahmed Ali Ahmed Alward
Assistant Professor, Sanaa University

(T-3 in January, 1st 2015)

Introduction to the Issuance of Manuscripts Recognition Cards

Manuscripts of Judges from Alward Althulaai
Thanks to the almighty God and peace be upon his last and final prophet and messenger as well as the family and companions of the prophet Mohammed:
To serve the purpose of searchability and recognition of the manuscripts, we have created these recognition cards that include information for each manuscript/book. This information includes but not limited to subjects, themes, authors, copiers and the time frame at which it was present and used. Also, an index is made to list the historical information and the subchapters included in these manuscripts. These manuscripts go into multiple fields in science and knowledge. There’s 26 subchapters. Each is identified with a digital number. There’s also 11 qualitative subchapters that are in regards to some of the knowledge extracted from the overall library of manuscripts. An example would be the role of Alward Althulaai family judges in Authorship, copying/transferring of information and the scientific certificates given to them. Another example is the extraction of all poetry, in its different forms, that was found in the library. This was extracted so that whoever is interested in this field is easily able to use the library and its contents to the extent that fulfils his/her scholarly desires and needs. This work, which includes 495 recognition cards, is made possible so that it is entered to the World Wide Web; in a website that is specifically designed for this library. The intent of this work is to serve the scientific and knowledge filled historical and valuable work, which belongs to our beloved country by making this work available to all scholars and interested personals. Here, I present this to the scholars and publishing entities to choose what they think would be beneficial and of value to the Arabic, Islamic and world library. I humbly ask that they look into this and see what could be investigated and published from this library. I also request that all those masters and doctorate degree seekers to consider doing their thesis on some or any of the subjects or books in the library as this will help expose our history and culture, represented in these books, to the world. I ask the lord to help all be on the straight path of righteousness, prosperity and well being of all humankind. I pray to the almighty that his mercy and peace comes down on us all and the final messagner Mohammed peace be upon him and his family and companions.

Library Entrusted: Ahmed Ali Ahmed Mohammed Alward
Web Master: PHD. Hussein Ahmed Ali Ahmed Alward

Illustrative Index of the guide/chart used to identify the manuscripts

  1. The guide is organized based on the national numbers. The first national number is 14801.
  2. All data is as shown in documentation and indexing cards, in its 8 parts. The guide Starts with the first part and continues on. Some additions are present.
  3. The additions are as follows:
    1. That which happens to be on the same Hijri date as the AD calendar.
    2. Age of the manuscripts is counted from the copying/writing date until today.
    3. To list the manuscripts from older to newer, an idiomatic symbol was chosen based on a century (100 years) from the Hijri calendar.
      1. The first century Hijri (After migration of prophet Mohammed from Mecca to Almadina). K-1 (01 – 99).
      2. K-2 (100 – 199).
      3. K-3 (200 – 299).
      4. K-4 (300 – 399).
      5. K-5 (400 – 499).
      6. K-6 (500 – 599).
      7. K-7 (600 – 699).
      8. K-8 (700 – 799).
      9. K-9 (800 – 899).
      10. K-10 (900 – 999).
      11. K-11 (1000 – 1099).
      12. K-12 (1100 – 1199).
      13. K-13 (1200 – 1299).
      14. K-14 (1300 – 1399).
      15. K-15 (1400 – 1435).
      16. Unknown (41699): Abbreviation for the 10th century is (99) instead of (1099). The same was done for the 15th century, so instead of (1416), (416) is used. Both date signify the time frame at which the library was created. These numbers are used for those manuscripts that we couldn’t find the date at which it was written
  4. For the sake of finding any subsection within the library, a system was developed. This system uses the title of any subsection and adds up the values that each letter represent in the Arabic alphabets. An example is shown below:
    Example: Holy Quraan studies section: The general name for this section is Quraan. The letters are (Q U R A A N). Each representative letter in Arabic has a numerical value. Foe this particular example, the numbers for the word Quraan are ( 1 + 30 + 100 + 200 + 1 + 50= 382). 382 is the code for this subsection that can be used whenever needed.