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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.
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A detailed and descriptive catalogue of the Turkish and Persian manuscripts in the Central Library of Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University | |||||||||
| By Dr. Muhammed Abdul-latif Hareedy | |||||||||
| إعداد محمد عبد اللطيف هريدي | |||||||||
| Publication Details: | Date: 1987 (1497) | ||||||||
| Place: Riyadh | |||||||||
| الرياض | |||||||||
| Publisher: Jāmiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad bin Saʿūd al-Islāmīyah | |||||||||
| جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية | |||||||||
| Physical Description: | 170 p. ; 24 cm. | ||||||||
| Notes: | World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, v. 3, p. 37. | ||||||||
| Language: | Arabic العربية | ||||||||
| Contributors: | HARĪDĪ, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf (Compiler) هريدي، محمد عبد اللطيف (محرر) | ||||||||
| Subject: | Islamic manuscripts — Union catalogues & Reference works المخطوطات الإسلامية — فهارس موحّدة والمراجع | ||||||||
| Item Shelf Details: | Location: Catalogue collection | ||||||||
| Library ID: 11665 Class Mark: Z6620.S3.R5.J3.I4 Main Accession Number: 5444 | |||||||||
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5XX | | $aWorld Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, v. 3, p. 37. |
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| 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 |
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