Аннотация:This article describes the Dagestani Islamic manuscripts collection, Imam Shamil’s library, housed at the Princeton University Firestone Library. The research objective is to present a sense of the Arabic literary culture in the Caucasian region. The material based here, on twenty four original scholarly works of Dagestani authors from the 12th to - 19th centuries, allows us to reveal how a long-standing Islamic Intellectual culture played an important role in the emergence of original scholarly works of local authorship.