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‘Our Publications’ databank / collection
‘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’.
This collection was added to the ‘Al-Furqan Digital Library’ to enrich the user research experience. The collection is continuously updated, and currently contains over 200 works in over 400 volumes. These cover both introductory and advanced topics discussed and presented by distinguished scholars in the field of Islamic written heritage.
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.
Al-Rawḍah al-Firdawsiyyah wa’l-Ḥaḍrah al-Qudsiyyah by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Amīn al- Āqshaharī (739 A.H./1338 A.D.)
The book not only documents the history of the city of Madīnah, including that of the Prophet’s mosque, but it is also a book for pilgrims. It records the biographies and lineage of the peoples of the time. The book begins with a list of the traditions followed with respect to visiting the Prophets mosque and the manner in which such a visit is performed. The larger more important section of the book, al-Rawḍa, holds details of biographies of those who passed away in the city and were buried in the al-Baqīʿ cemetery. Also included in the book are sections on the life of the Prophet, biographies of his forefathers, children, the Mothers of the Believers, the Caliphs and the ten companions who were promised the Paradise.
| Volume | View Vol. 1 (2010) | (sold in set only) |
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Shared Knowledge
Kitāb al-Iʿtimād fī al-Adwiyah al-Mufradah (The Reliable Book on Simple Drugs) by Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad Ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Al-Jazzār (369 AH/979-980 CE)
Bidāyat al-Mubtadī (A Classical Manual on the Hanafi Juridical School) by ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr al-Marghinānī
The Mechanical Corpus of al-Isfizārī in the Sciences of Weights and Ingenious Devices by Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī