The Digital Library is an open access platform that provides cross-search and specialised research tools across a wealth of scholarship and hidden treasures of the Islamic written heritage. It offers a continuously growing repository of bibliographic information about manuscripts and manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law (Maqāsid al-Sharīah), and access to a reference library with specialised collections in a wide range of languages.
Ramazan Şeşen
Turks contributed to the literature of Islamic science not only work written in Arabic and Persian, but also from the middle of the fifth/eleventh century, thousands of works in Turkish, written in the A...
Muhammad Al-Babīb Al-Hīlah
While the chief concern of Muslim jurists (fuqahā’) has always been to establish principles for dealing with every event necessitating the administration of justice in society within the cir...
‘Abdul Aziz Ahmed Al-Rifai
This article deals with the literary manuscripts amassed in the library of al- Baghdādī, the owner of this library, ‘‘Abd al-Qādir b. ‘Umar al-Baghdādī (1030/1621—1093/1682), and his book Kh...
Ahmed Raissouni
The principle or theory of ‘paying regard to the consequences (of a ruling)’ explains another feature of istišlāħ. This is a special feature and so needs its own explanation....
