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‘Our Library’ databank / collection

The ‘Al-Furqan Digital Library’ also includes the online catalogue of the holdings of the Al-Furqan’s physical Library. It is an electronic bibliographic database which describes the Library items, and the way of accessing them.

The Library Collection represents a cornerstone reference collection on major research areas, including Islamic manuscripts. The major subjects covered are: Qur’anic studies, Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic theology, philosophy, science, medicine, history, geography, art and architecture, and literature; all of them written in the major Islamic languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Swahili, Gujarati, as well as European languages and Russian. The Library collection also includes multilingual dictionaries, Arabic biographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias, covering the classical period to the present time.

To date, the Library has collected over 11,000 titles in more than 16,000 volumes, on various subjects. Moreover, the Library's collections include almost 1,800 printed Islamic manuscript catalogues in around 2,500 volumes, from over 70 countries.

The library’s holdings are arranged and organised according to the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) for ease of use, while its collection of catalogues of Islamic manuscripts is classified by country.

Country:Saudi Arabia
City:Riyadh (Al-Riyaḍ)
Library:Jamiʿat al-Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿud al-Islamiya (Imam Muhammad b.‎ Saʿud Islamic University)

Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt (fī Jāmiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd al-Islāmīyah, al-Riyaḍ) : al-Adab wa-al-naqd wa-al-balāghah
فهرست المخطوطات (في جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية ، الرياض) : الأدب والنقد والبلاغة

ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Muḥammad al-Ḥulū
إعداد عبد الفتاح محمد الحلو
Publication Details: Date: 1986 (1406)
Place: Riyadh
الرياض
Publisher: Jāmiʿ al-Imām Muḥammad bin Saʿūd al-Islāmīyah
جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية
Physical Description:408 p.‎ ; 24 cm.‎
Notes:Detailed description of 388 mss.‎ dealing with adab, and 124 mss.‎ dealing with al-naqd wa-al-balāghah.‎ World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, v.‎3, p.‎36.‎
Language:Arabic
العربية
Contributors:AL-ḤULŪ, ʿAbd Al-Fattāḥ Muḥammad (Compiler)
الحلو، عبد الفتاح محمد (محرر)
Subject:Islamic manuscripts — Union catalogues & Reference works
المخطوطات الإسلامية فهارس موحّدة والمراجع

Item Shelf Details:Location: Catalogue collection
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Country:Saudi Arabia
City:Riyadh (Al-Riyaḍ)
Library:Jamiʿat al-Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿud al-Islamiya (Imam Muhammad b.‎ Saʿud Islamic University)
Catalogue:Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt (fī Jāmiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd al-Islāmīyah, al-Riyaḍ) : al-Adab wa-al-naqd wa-al-balāghah فهرست المخطوطات (في جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية ، الرياض) : الأدب والنقد والبلاغة
Contact:Qism al-Makhṭuṭat, Al-Maktaba al-Markaziya (Department of Manuscripts, Central Library)
Ṭariq al-Maṭar al-SariϹ
Telephone:+966 444425012
Date of establishment:1395/1975
Status:Institutional
Status Details:University library (governmental)
Condition of access:MSS can be consulted in the Department of Manuscripts. Photographic copies can be obtained on payment of cost or by exchange. The library is open throughout the week except Thursdays and Fridays.
Total number of Islamic MSS:9,000 (8,690 Arabic; 73 Persian; 237 Turkish), plus 12,000 photocopies and microfilms.
Description of Collection:The MSS deal with various subjects: Qurʾanic recitation, tafsir,Qurʾanic sciences, Ḥadith and related sciences, jurisprudence, doctrines, Arabic language sciences, rhetoric, literature, criticism, history, biography, Sira, geography.‎ These form the greater part of the collection, but there are also some on astronomy, astrology, arithmetic, geometry, medicine, Sufism, logic, ethics and lexicography.‎ The Department of Manuscripts of the University is considered to be the largest of its kind in the Kingdom in terms of acquisition and care of MSS, originals as well as photocopies.‎ The library has the most modern facilities for preservation.‎ Most MSS of the collection date from the 10th to the 13th centuries AH, but there are some from the 6th–9th centuries.‎
The Library's holdings include the MSS from the Rawḍat Khayri library in Buḥayra, Egypt.‎
Rare and notable items include: i) Kitab Abniyat al-asmaʾ wa-'l-maṣadir by Abu 'l-Qasim ʿAli ibn Jaʿfar al-Qaṭṭaʿ, unique MS.‎, dated 657 AH; ii) Diwan al-Ḥamasa by Abu Tammam, dated Shaʿban 589 AH; iii) Al-Fuṣul, a tafsir of two parts in one volume by Nur al-Din Abu Ḥanifa ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrahim al-Buni, probably unique copy, 7th century AH; iv) Ṭabaqat al-aṭibbaʾ wa-'l-ḥukamaʾ by Sulayman ibn Ḥassan ibn Juljul, probably unique, 10th century AH (from the Rawḍat Khayri Library); v) An 8th/14th century illuminated (partly gilt) Qurʾan; vi) A Qurʾan copied in fine calligraphy on to a roll of cloth.‎
The microfilm collection includes Arabic MSS in major libraries in Turkey and Europe.‎
Notes:See published World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts. 1992 - 1994, Vol.3, p 34.
Published Catalogues:11
Unpublished Catalogues:1
Online access:https://www.imamu.edu.sa/en/Pages/default.aspx