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‘Our Publications’ collection is a bibliographic database of the Foundation's own publications. These works are the outcome of prominent research projects and events carried out by the three centres of the Foundation, i.e. the ‘Manuscripts Centre’, the ‘Mawsoa Centre’ and the ‘Maqasid Centre’.

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It also includes many popular and heavily cited publications, as well as award winning works, such as the critical edition of al-Isfizāri’s book which deals with the field of mechanics, known as “the sciences of weights and mechanical devices” (‘Ilmay al-Athqāl wal-Ḥiyal). Other popular items include works by the late famous scholar Annemarie Schimmel, such as The Secrets of Creative Love (1998) and Islam and the Wonders of Creation(2003); and many other highly demanded references, including the unique Encyclopaedia of Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah.

Catalogue of Islamic Manuscripts in the private library of Shaikh Lmūhūb Ulaḥbīb, Bejaia - Algeria

Prepared by Djamel-Eddine Mechehed, Edited by Ayman Fuad Sayyid
2004
Arabic
Catalogues
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9781873992913
1873992912
Book
Hardback
1
476
0.936 kg
Ayman Fuad Sayyid (Editor)
Djamel-Eddine Mechehed (Cataloguer)

This catalogue lists 475 manuscripts of the private library of Ulaḥbīb in the suburbs of Bijāyah in the Republic of Algeria. The subjects covered in this catalogue are the Arabic language and its branches such as literature, poetry, grammar, morphology, tafsīr (Qurʾānic interpretation), tajwīd (Qurʾān recitation sciences), script writing, qirāʾāt (Qurʾānic linguistic variations), Ḥadīth, jurisprudence , trade, philosophy, creed, Sufism, Islamic asceticism, litanies, bayān, rhetoric, logic, history, biographies of notable individuals, lineage, various specialities, the manufacture of ink, and the binding of manuscripts and Qurʾānic copies (maṣāḥif), mathematics, engineering, inheritance, astrology and astronomy. It is worth noting that French colonisers attempted to burn this library in 1957. Those manuscripts that were rescued were buried for fear to see them fall into French colonial hands.

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