During the period from 30th November to 1st December 1991, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation organised its inaugural conference, on the topic of "The Significance of Islamic Manuscripts".
Participants at the conference presented papers on topics related to the Islamic manuscripts, constituting the first contribution to the preservation and cataloguing of Islamic manuscripts that are spread across the world.
Some papers looked at the Islamic written heritage in general. Other papers looked at Islamic manuscripts in specific geographical locations. Some papers also considered specialist topics in the Islamic sciences.