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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.
Majāz al-Qurʾān By ʿIz al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (660 A.H./ 1262 A.D)
This book deals with the topic of majāz (allegory) in the Qurʾān. It was authored by Sulṭān al-ʿUlamāʾ al-ʿIz bin ʿAbd al-Salām. He looks at the two competing stances on the subject, one accepting its existence and the other not. The author examines the subject at great length and sides with the view that accepts the existence of allegorical use in the Qurʾān, a position he then defends with vigor. He describes in the work the issue of omission in the Qurʾān and tajawwuz (linguistic ties outside of the immediate context) with letters and words in 48 sections.
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Tafsīr Gharīb al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (Intepretation of Unfamiliar Words in Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ) by Aḥmad ibn ʿUmrān, known as al-Akhfash (d. before 250 AH/ 864 CE)
The Mechanical Corpus of al-Isfizārī in the Sciences of Weights and Ingenious Devices by Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī
Water and its sources in the Holy City of Jerusalem and the Ottoman State's Efforts to Provide it: Documentary Study and a Critical Edition of a Treatise on the Reconstruction of Jerusalem's Drinking-Fountain by Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khalīlī