MEHDI BAGHI (Researcher) Article contents:FAMILY BACKGROUND LIFE, AND CONTRIBUTIONSCHRONOLOGY OF AFSHAR’S SELECTED ACADEMIC CONTRI BUTIONS TO BIBLIOGRAPHYSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYIRAJ AFSHAR’S APPROACH TO CATALOGUING AND EDI...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU (Member of Al-Furqān Foundation’s Board of Directors) “Never dieth that one whose heart is alive with love.” Hafez, the famous Iranian poet Iraj Afshar (I925-2011) was one of the greatest scholars of...
Sadegh Sajjad (Vice Director and Head of the History Department, The Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran, Iran) SALĀH AL-DĪN HASAN NAKHJAWĀNĪ known as Bulghārī, was one of the most distinguished Sufi masters of the Suhraw...
Mahmoud Omidsalar; (John F. Kennedy Memorial Library California State University, Los Angeles) In his contribution to David Greetham’s Scholarly Editing, A Guide to Research, published in 1995, Michael G. Carter who cont...
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 universa...
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 of l...
The case of an ‘Ottoman’ watermarked paper used in Yemen and in Ethiopia1 Anne RegourdAustrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna CNRS, UMR 7192) Article contents:IntroductionOverview of paper...