Quaid-e-Azam University Library – The Central Library of QAU is named Dr. Raziuddin Siddiqui Memorial Library to recognize services of the first Vice-Chancellor of Quaid-e-Azam University. In addition to a large multidisciplinary collection with over 230,000 books and audiovisual material and 35,000 volumes of research journals, the library is a depository for United Nations Publications for many decades. There are eight seminar libraries in various departments with excellent collection and services. www.qua.edu.pk/libraries [28] Akbar formed a department for cataloguing the library’s 24,000 titles. He did much of the work himself, classifying the books under three main groupings. Bookbinding became a high art, producing beautifully decorated covers. He also established a library exclusively for women. Despite his passion for libraries and education he could not read nor write. [23] He would listen daily to the perusal of books by paid readers. His evenings were spent listening to experts on scientific and literary matters. The Mughal rulers were fond of books and used to take pride in collecting rare manuscripts for their personal libraries. Attached to the library was the translation bureau where famous scholars and eminent translators rendered books into Arabic. There were Hindu, Christian, Jewish and Parsi scholars who were equally deemed estimable. They were paid handsome salaries. Ibn al-Nadeem (990) in his famous Kitab al-Fihrist (Index of books up to 987) and Ottoman scholar Haji Khalifa (Kâtip Çelebi 1657) in his Kasha al-Zanoon have listed all the books that were translated here.

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Imam Malik رحمه الله intended to compile his most famous book, “The Muwatta”, so he compiled it, so whoever was in Medina that day worked in “Muwattaat”, and he was told: You busy yourself with the work of this book while people have partnered with you on the same work, and Imam Malik knew those “Muwattaat”. so he said: Bring what they have compiled in their “Muwattaat”. So those books were brought to him and he looked in them, then discarded them and said: You will soon know that except for the book (Islamic book) which has been written for the pleasure of Allah, all the others will not be able to gain popularity.M. Lesley Wilkins (1994), “Islamic Libraries to 1920”, Encyclopedia of Library History, New York: Garland Indeed, to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and causes death. And you have not besides Allah any protector or any helper.” Surah Tawbah Ayat 116 This information was extracted from Karachi University Library Science Alumni Association online magazine, Editor M.H. Shahid. Jan-June 2015, brief description of other libraries in Rawalpindi-Islamabad is given as well.

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Olga Pinto: `The Libraries of the Arabs during the time of the Abbasids,’ in Islamic Culture 3 (1929), pp. 211-43.In Shiraz, he established a glorious library with books written from the beginnings of Islam to his time. It was located inside the royal palace. There were a large number of tall bookshelves; the wood was painted with gold color. There was a separate room for each branch of knowledge. The library was looked after by a treasurer, and a director. Only reputable scholars had access to the library. Personnel of the Imperial library included Nazim, Muhtamim, Sahhaf, Warraq, Jildsaz, Naqqash, Khushnavis, Muqabila Navis, Mussahih (proofreader), Katib (scribe)