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manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law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.
Abbas Kelidar
The civilisation of Islam has had religion as its fundamental inspiration. Religion has also served Muslims as a primordial identity, and the basis of communal loyalty and political allegiance. The unive...
A. B. Zahlan
Science and technology over the past two centuries have made enormous strides that have resulted in widespread social and economic changes. As a consequence of recent scientific and technological developm...
Irfan Shahid
The felicitous Qurʿānic phrase ʻahl al-kitābʼ, the ʻPeople of the Bookʼ, is applied in the Qurʿān to the Jews and Christians, but it is in fact even more applicable to the Muslims privileged place of the ...
Annemarie Schimmel
What to bring for a festive occasion? No doubt, flowers would be the right gift- but as we are far away from the scholar who is to be honoured we have to pluck some modest flowers from the gardens o...
