Zillur Rahman Library
of
Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences

The library of IAMMS houses one of the most precious and highly valuable collection of manuscripts, printed books, special periodical numbers and specimens of oriental calligraphy.

Prof. Syed Zillur Rahman is a man of literary taste. He established his personal library, now part of IAMMS Trust. The library consists of over 400 manuscripts, several thousand books in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English on a variety of subjects like History of Medicine and Science, Unani/Islamic Medicine, Religion, Urdu Literature pertaining to Ghalib and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, besides thousands of bound volumes of periodicals. Most of the manuscripts are very rare and matchless and cannot easily be found in any other library of the world. Some of them, especially the copies of the Holy Quran are extremely beautiful specimens of the art of calligraphy of antiquated scripts. Some of the illuminated copies of the Holy Quran having beautiful frontispieces and embellished borders are so alluring, and eye-catching that any one who looks at them is dazzled, lost in astonishment and stands spell-bound gazing at them in wonder. Facilities of computerized cataloguing are available in the library.