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manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law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.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu
This paper deals with extant manuscript translations of the Holy Qurʾān in various languages, and tries to analyse the data with regard to the characteristics and dates of translation of these man...
Mehdi Mohaghghegh
It was the translation movement in Islamic civilization which made the works of Greek scholars available to the Muslims....
Ḥamad Al-Jāsir
God has favoured the Muslims by His promise to eternally preserve the Book of Islam. ‘We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and we will assuredly guard it (from corruption)’ (15:9)...
David A. King
There are an estimated 10,000 scientific manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish which, together with about 1,000 astronomical instruments, constitute the major sources for our knowledge of the exact...
