Middle East and Islamic Studies Collections: an Exhibition of Treasures

Archival Collections

Durham University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains a number of important archival collections relating to the Middle East, including two of international significance, the Abbas Hilmi II Papers and the Sudan Archive. The most comprehensive coverage is for Egypt (Abbas Hilmi II Papers; Wingate Papers and other smaller collections in the Sudan Archive; Donald Hawley Papers; E.T. Richmond Papers; Cromer Papers) and the Sudan (Sudan Archive; some material in Abbas Hilmi II Papers; Donald Hawley Papers), but there is also material relating to Palestine (the Clayton and the Wingate Papers in the Sudan Archive; E.T. Richmond Papers), Turkey (Ponsonby Papers; Abbas Hilmi II Papers), Yemen (Eric Watkins Papers), the Arabian Peninsula (Wingate Papers and other collections in the Sudan Archive; Tom Johnstone Papers), Syria (Ibrahim Pasha letters in the Abbas Hilmi II collection; the Copley Family Papers; some collections in the Sudan Archive) and Iraq, the Trucial States (the UAE) and Oman (Donald Hawley Papers).

A small number of items from each collection are displayed here, with links to the collection level descriptions on the website for Archives and Special Collections. These in turn will provide links to the more detailed catalogues, also available online.

Portrait of Muhammad Ali Pasha	Kibat Shawahid al-qatr	Kitab-i Zarir al-Khuzai	C.E. Wilson's views on T.E. Lawrence
Copy letter to the Hon Miss Waldegrave, 1863	Dinshawi Incident	Dinshawi Incident	Agreement among Yemeni political parties
Memorandom on Turkey, 1835	John Maffey and staff at the Palace in Khartoum	Portrait of Mufti Amin Effendi al-Husaini	Portrait of Amir Abd Allah
Ratib of the Mahdi	Recognition of Shaykh Rashid ibn Said	Richmond's view on Jewish migration	Mehri text