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World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 1: Afghanistan - Iran
Series: - World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume: 1
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The World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts is a collective bibliographical work, which brings together the work of manuscript scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, from all corners of the world, in a rich collaboration to enhance our knowledge of the written heritage of the Islamic civilization.
The Al-Furqan Survey seeks to fill the gaps left by previous bibliographies and similar works, and at the same time to bring together and update most of the information contained in them. The Survey aims to provide the reader with a guide to collections of Islamic manuscripts, details of access to these collections and their holdings, and also information about particularly significant manuscripts which they contain.
The Al-Furqan Survey is the first ever attempt to account for all Islamic languages in over 90 countries of the world. It also seeks to provide detailed information for all holdings, thereby filling a lacuna for collections not as yet catalogued and even for many catalogued collections where the work has remained incomplete.
The Al-Furqan Survey seeks to fill the gaps left by previous bibliographies and similar works, and at the same time to bring together and update most of the information contained in them. The Survey aims to provide the reader with a guide to collections of Islamic manuscripts, details of access to these collections and their holdings, and also information about particularly significant manuscripts which they contain.
The Al-Furqan Survey is the first ever attempt to account for all Islamic languages in over 90 countries of the world. It also seeks to provide detailed information for all holdings, thereby filling a lacuna for collections not as yet catalogued and even for many catalogued collections where the work has remained incomplete.
The Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation was established in 1988 by the Yamani Cultural Foundation. Objectives and functions of the foundation are: to promote, sponsor and initiate research in the field of Islamic manuscripts, to assist in the preservation and restoration of Islamic manuscripts, and to assist in cataloguing previously uncatalogued collections, to establish a record of the manuscripts and build up a library, and to edit and publish Islamic manuscripts of particular significance, as well as hold academic conferences, seminars and lectures on the subject.
'It will be an essential item for any library which covers Islamic Studies in its broadest sense and will find a welcome home too in the private libraries of many scholars in the field.'
G. Rex Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1993.
'...the standard of both the form and the content is impressively high.'
Colin Wakefield, BRISMES, 1994.
G. Rex Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1993.
'...the standard of both the form and the content is impressively high.'
Colin Wakefield, BRISMES, 1994.
Specialists and students of Middle Eastern studies and Islamic studies, institutes, and academic libraries.