The Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts
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 Se...
David A. King Article contents:Introductory remarksFolk science and mathematical scienceBio-bibliographical surveysCritical editions of scientific textsSurveys of individual topicsAstronomical handbooks with tablesArticl...
Ramazan Şeşen Article contents:The history of Turkish manuscriptsStudies conducted on Turkish manuscripts 1- Studies on the preparation of catalogues of Turkish manuscripts outside Turkey2- The studies carried out ...
‘Abdul Aziz Ahmed Al-Rifai This article deals with the literary manuscripts amassed in the library of al- Baghdādī, the owner of this library, ʿAbd al-Qādir b. ʿUmar al-Baghdādī (1030/1621—1093/1682), and his book Khizān...
Īraj Afshār Article contents Manuscript descriptionThe rules of cataloguingEstimation of the Persian manuscript heritageSelective and critical cataloguingBibliography of Persian manuscripts cataloguesThe future of catalo...
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. The earliest inscriptions and...
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). And it was He ...
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 Qur...
Angelo Michele Piemontese A manuscript is both a text that is, a written document of a certain literary genre, and a handwritten work, be it a codex or a scroll. A manuscript as a whole is endowed with an everlasting val...
Wilfred F. Madelung Human history, according to a common definition, begins with the written word. Before the age of writing, there was only prehistory. Archaeologists and experts dealing with prehistory have, to b...