Articles Related to Islamic Manuscripts and Islamic Heritage
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The Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts
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An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script
François Déroche, with contributions by Annie Berthier, Marie-Geneviève Guesdon, Bernard Guineau, Francis Richard, Annie Vernay-Nouri, Jean Vezin, Muhammad Isa Waley Article contents:Not all books are codicesVolumen...
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Islamic Manuscripts in the West
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...
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The Significance of Islamic Manuscripts
Seyyed Hossein Nasr ‘Nūn. By the Pen, and that which they write.’ (Qur’ān, LXVIII: 1) ‘Say.’ Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the Words of my Lord...
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Manuscripts in Historical Research and Text Edition
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...
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