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manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law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.
Enes Karic
Sadly, the manuscript treasures and the collections of Arabic, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in Bosnia & Herzegovina shared the same fate as the Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina during the war of...
Mahmoud F. Hegazi
Since July 1994, the National Library has constituted one of four main sectors of the new Egyptian government agency, which is also responsible for public libraries, the state archive and relevant sc...
Abid Reza Bedar
The organisers of this conference, Al-Furqān Foundation, whom I thank at the outset for inviting me to participate in their conference, have asked me to present a report on the state of preservation of...
Mohamed Bencherifa
There is no doubt that the Muslims attained a high degree of versatility and mastery in the production of manuscripts, as is demonstrated in the diversity of works which they devoted to this fine an...
