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Summary
al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya is an online digital library of books of the Shari'a sciences, which scans them and uploads them to archives and file-hosting sites; in a statement of its own it says it holds nearly ten million pages in high resolution, most converted to PDF. 1
Sections
The library holds manuscripts, theses, Islamic texts in various forms, and scanned books. 1
Beginnings
Its site's earliest capture in the Internet Archive is dated 14 December 2005 and titled "under construction": it shows al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya with a store of scanned books, and announces as coming soon a manuscripts store of more than 12 GB to download, a store of recited texts, and the second release of "al-Mawsu'a al-Shamila". 2 The Arabic article links it with al-Maktaba al-Shamela. 1
Today
The site is at waqfeya.com and has an article in the Arabic Wikipedia. 3 The page count above is the library's own figure.
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- al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya — Arabic Wikipedia
- Internet Archive capture of waqfeya.com, 14 December 2005
- al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya — Wikidata Q64459597
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya (waqfeya.com)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/waqfeya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-07.
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