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manuscript collections worldwide, inviting its users to delve into a wide range of sources, including: published and unpublished catalogues of Islamic manuscript from over 106 countries, an unprecedented comprehensive bibliography within the field of the objectives of Islamic law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.
Anas B. Khalidov
Vast regions of the former Soviet Union have had a long Islamic past, in which a rich, diverse literature has played its part thousands of texts have been repeatedly copied....
Īraj Afshār
Before considering the work being done on Persian manuscripts and the places where they are kept, attention should first be focused upon two related topics....
David A. King
“Have you ever prayed in the qibla? If not, then you know nothing about the qibla.ˮ Question from a Muslim dignitary after a lecture of mine Istanbul in July, 1983, on the newly-discovered sources relati...
Ahmed Raissouni
This principle is a direct extension and a completion of the first, ta‘līl. We have established that the Sharī‘ah is based on rationales and that these, whether they be general or related to specific r...
