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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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Illuminierte islamische Handschriften | |||||||||
| Beschrieben von Ivan Stchoukine, Barbara Flemming, Paul Luft, Hanna Sohrweide; herausgegeben von Wolfgang Voigt | |||||||||
| Series: | Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland ; Bd. 16 | ||||||||
| Publication Details: | Date: 1971 | ||||||||
| Place: Wiesbaden | |||||||||
| Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag | |||||||||
| Physical Description: | vii, 54 plates (12 in col.), 340p. ; 28 cm. | ||||||||
| Notes: | 111 mss. already fully described in other catalogues ; here only identifications and descriptions for the history of art are given. | ||||||||
| Language: | German الألمانية | ||||||||
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| Subject: | Islamic manuscripts — Union catalogues & Reference works المخطوطات الإسلامية — فهارس موحّدة والمراجع | ||||||||
| Item Shelf Details: | Location: Catalogue Collection | ||||||||
| Library ID: 8841 Class Mark: Z6620.G4.B4.D4 Main Accession Number: 9512 | |||||||||
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245 | 00 | $aIlluminierte islamische Handschriften$cBeschrieben von Ivan Stchoukine, Barbara Flemming, Paul Luft, Hanna Sohrweide; herausgegeben von Wolfgang Voigt |
260 | | $aWiesbaden$bFranz Steiner Verlag$c1971 |
300 | | $avii, 54 plates (12 in colour), 340p.$c28cm |
100 | 0 | $6880-01$aVOIGT, Wolfgang $d1911-1982 $eGeneral Editor |
880 | 1 | $6100-01/(B/r$a $d1911-1982 $eمحقق عام |
700 | 0 | $aSTCHOUKINE, Ivan $eCompiler |
700 | 0 | $6880-01$aFLEMMING, Barbara $d1930-2020 $eCompiler |
880 | 1 | $6700-01/(B/r$a $d1930-2020 $eمحرر |
700 | 0 | $6880-01$aLUFT, Paul $d1934- $eCompiler |
880 | 1 | $6700-01/(B/r$a $d1934- $eمحرر |
700 | 0 | $6880-01$aSOHRWEIDE, Hanna $d1919-1984 $eCompiler |
880 | 1 | $6700-01/(B/r$a $d1919-1984 $eمحرر |
490 | 1 | $aVerzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland ; Bd. 16 |
650 | 0 | $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic — Germany — Berlin — Catalogs |
650 | 0 | $aManuscripts, Persian — Germany — Berlin — Catalogs |
740 | 0 | $aIlluminierte islamische Handschriften |
5XX | | $a111 mss. already fully described in other catalogues ; here only identifications and descriptions for the history of art are given. |
852 | 71 | $aCatalogue Collection$hZ6620.G4.B4.D4$p8841$2Al-Furqan Library Subject |
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| Contact: | Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin |
| Telephone: | 49 30 2660 |
| Date of establishment: | 1659 |
| Status: | Institutional |
| Status Details: | Public |
| Condition of access: | The MSS can be consulted in a special section. |
| Total number of Islamic MSS: | ca. 11,730 (ca. 7200 Arabic; ca. 40 Kurdish; ca. 40 Malay; ca. 900 Persian; ca. 1500 Turkish; 54 Urdu). |
| Description of Collection: | W. Ahlwardt, in 1887, counted 6450 volumes of Arabic MSS in 13 different collections. But since then a number of additional collections have been acquired; and they are still growing fast through gifts and purchases. Thus, no exact numbers can be given; perhaps some 9700 Islamic MSS are now in Berlin (a mere estimate because the later acquisitions often have not been identified as yet; thus, they may be ascribed to other cultures eventually). An exact count of the number of MSS in one particular collection, and a comparison with another, is impossible also (especially in a big library like the Staatsbibliothek of Berlin) because the numerous authors often have not distinguished between “work”, or “treatise”, and “manuscript” (which often contains several treatises). The MSS are in held in exemplary conditions, in a special, well guarded section of the library. All fields of Islamic studies are covered. The MSS come from all periods of Islamic history (obviously with the exception of the first three [centuries]); but the great majority is not very old (the more recent acquisitions especially often appear to be hardly more than occasional commercial products). A few, however, are quite old and rare. In the re-united Berlin the former Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz in the western part of the city has recently been entrusted also with the MSS formerly kept in East Berlin. See Die orientalische Abteilung der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek.By Gotthold Weil. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen; 37, 1920, pp. 57–66. Deutsche Staatsbibliothek 1661–1961. Vol. 1: Geschichte und Gegenwart. Die Handschriften-abteilung: Von der Gründung der kurfürstlichen Bibliothek bis zum Beginn des 19. JahrhundertsBy Hans Lülfing.Leipzig: Deutsche Staatsbibliothek. Der Plan für die Einrichtung der Orientalischen Abteilung in der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek und ihre heutigen Funktionen. Zum 50jährigen Bestehen der Abteilung.By K. Schubarth-Engelschall. Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 83, 1969, pp. 129–135. Die Erschliessung der Bestände der Asien-Afrika-Abteilung der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek, Berlin.By E.-M. Freytag & H. Keller.Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 92, 1978, pp. 276–279. Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kostbare Handschriften und Drucke.Wiesbaden: Reichert. 205pp. Erwerbung von Handschriften zum islamischen Recht an der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin).By K. Schwarz. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Juristisches Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen: Mitteilungen 10, 1980, pp. 122–123. Türkische Handschriften in der Staatsbibliothek.By K. Schwarz. Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Mitteilungen 14, 1982,pp. 148–153. Die Sammlung türkischer Handschriften in der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin/West).By K. Schwarz.Acta Orientalia (Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae) 37, 1983, pp. 111–120. Turkish manuscripts: cataloguing since 1960 and manuscripts still uncatalogued. Part 1: The Berlin catalogue.By E. Birnbaum.Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, 1983, pp. 413–420. 25 Jahre Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (1957–1982).By D. George.Staatsbibliothek Preussische Kulturbesitz: Mitteilungen 15, 1983, pp. 156–165. Orientabteilung.By H.O. Feistel.Preussischer Kulturbesitz. 25 Jahre in Berlin: Sammeln—Forschen—Bilden. Aus der Arbeit der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz 1961–1986. Berlin: Mann, (Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Sonderband 3) pp. 207–210. |
| Notes: | The library was founded in 1659 as “Churfürstliche Bibliothek”. Divided as a result of World War II; the Staatsbibliothek formerly in East Berlin recently combined with the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (formerly in West-Berlin), as before. |
| Published Catalogues: | 31 |
| Unpublished Catalogues: | 1 |
| Online access: | staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ |
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