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Before the revelation of Islam, the two cities of Makkah and Madinah were civilisational centres and meeting points of different cultures and religions. With the revelation of Islam they became the focal points for the a...

Al-Furqān has published edited works produced by prominent professors and scholars, within the scope of its 5 defined disciplines, i.e. Qur'ānic disciplines, Islamic Fiqh (jurisprudence) and its fundamentals, History, Sc...

Out of a desire to give young editors the broad cultural and scholarly background, which they often lack, and taking into consideration that the skills involved in editing manuscripts are gradually disappearing, Al-Furqa...

Al-Furqan has focused on cataloguing different collections of manuscripts, mainly in areas that are endangered and deprived of funding and support. So far, the Foundation has published 30 catalogues in 68 volumes, record...

Realising that the skills involved in the cataloguing of manuscripts are gradually disappearing, Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation envisaged special training courses on the sphere of cataloguing, to be aimed at young...

It is estimated that three million Islamic manuscripts survive today. Islamic manuscripts are to be found not only in every Islamic country and in countries with large Islamic minorities, such as India, the Soviet Union ...

Islamic manuscripts constitute a particularly important part of Islamic heritage. During the fourteen centuries of its history, Islamic civilisation has produced a vast number of written works, mostly in Arabic and Persi...