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The '''Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Library''' is a library on Pir Muhammad Shah Road, Pankore Naka, [[Ahmedabad]], in the state of [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. One of the oldest libraries in India, it has a collection of rare original manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Turkish languages.

==History==
The library is located within the precincts of the tomb-shrine complex of Pir Muhammad Shah, a Sufi who was born in [[Bijapur]] in 1688 and migrated to Ahmedabad in 1711, where he died in 1749. He belonged to the [[Qadiriyya|Qadiri]] [[Shattariyya|Shattari]] [[Sufism|Sufi]] order. The library started with book that Muhammad Shah himself had brought from Arabia, and then was expanded by his disciples with books that they had acquired locally and abroad.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries|last=Qureshi|first=Muhammad Zuber|publisher=Vikas|year=1985|editor-last=Troll|editor-first=Christian W.|volume=2|location=New Delhi|pages=282–300|chapter=The History of Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah at Ahmadabad}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rK5AAAAIAAJ&q=Hazrat+Pir+Muhammad+Shah|title=Libraries and librarianship during Muslim rule in India|last1=Allauddin|first1=Shaikh|last2=Rout|first2=R. K.|publisher=Reliance Pub. House|year=1996|isbn=978-81-85972-95-4|pages=109}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bombaywala |first=Mohaiuddin |title=Ahmedabad 600: Portraits of a City |publisher=Marg |year=2003 |editor-last=Balasubrahmanyan |editor-first=Suchitra |pages=54–55 |chapter=Arabic-Persian Scholarship: Medieval Manuscripts at the Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah Dargah Sharif Library |editor-last2=Sagara |editor-first2=Sharmila}}</ref>

Prominent writer and scholar Professor Mohyiuddin Bombaywala has held the post of director since last 30 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/new-chapter-for-pir-mohammad-shah-library/articleshow/70505605.cms|title=New chapter for Pir Mohammad Shah Library |website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-12-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/doors-close-at-pir-muhammad-shah-library-which-houses-300-year-old-manuscripts/articleshow/70477318.cms|title=Doors close at Pir Muhammad Shah Library which houses 300-year-old manuscripts |website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-12-08}}</ref> Dr. [[Z. A. Desai|Ziauddin A. Desai]], the well-known numismatist and scholar, was associated with the Library and its governing trust until his death in 2002.

==Catalogues==
''Arabi, Farsi, Urdu makhtūtāt kī wadahatī fihrist'', 10 vols., (Ahmedabad: Pir Muhammad Shah Dargah Sharif Trust) 1998.
Shaykh Farid al-Din Burhanpuri, d. 1998, "Kutub khanah-yi Dargah Hazrat Pir Muhammad Shah," Nawa-i Adab (October 1955); Taher, Amin Ahmed Khan, and Muhammed Burhanuddin, "Dargah Libraries in India: A Comparative Study," International Library Journal 18 (1986): 337–345; Z. A. Desai, "Some Rare Seal-Bearing Persian Manuscripts in the Hazrat P. M. Dargah Library," Indo-Iranica 46, l-lv
(1993): 52–73.
Works on the history or individual manuscripts in the Library: published 6 journals. 12 catalogues.

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