A Comprehensive Bibliographical Guide to Collections of Islamic Manuscripts in all Islamic Languages in Over Ninety countries Throughout the World.
In 1989 the Foundation set up a research project to investigate as comprehensively as possible the collections of Islamic manuscripts existing worldwide. Scholars were identified and commissioned to carry out the survey in 106 countries. The project resulted in The World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts which is the most wide-ranging survey to date, in terms of both the countries surveyed and the languages covered.
The Foundation made history in the field of Islamic manuscripts by successfully completing the Survey, an ambitious academic project of a collective bibliographical work that brought together the work of manuscript scholars from almost every part of the world.
The objective of this project was to conduct an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of these collections. The Survey aimed at filling gaps left by previous bibliographies and similar works, and at the same time worked to bring together and update most of the information included in them.
It offers a guide to collections of Islamic manuscripts and details of how to access them.
