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manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law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.
Tony Bish
In the autumn of 1986, I was asked by Lawrence Conrad if l could travel to Jerusalem to prepare a Conservation Condition report on the Khālidī Library consisting of approximately 1,200 manuscripts. I arrived...
Murād al-Rammāḥ
Kairouan, mother of cities and capital of the land, is the greatest city in the Arab west, the most populated, prosperous and thriving with the most perfect buildings ... and the most lucrative in trad...
David Jacobs and Barbara Rodgers
The Islamic book has possibly suffered more harm than any other book from the methods used in conservation, handling, and storage. In order to go some way to redressing the balance, th...
Ursula Dreibholz
The west wall of the Great Mosque of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, collapsed under the impact of heavy rains in 1971. Rebuilding of the wall started the following year, and in the process a large numb...
