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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.
Le Manuscrit autographe d'al-Mawāʿiẓ wa al-Iʿtibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa al-Athār de Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Maqrīzī
“Le Manuscrit autographe d'al-Mawāʿiẓ wa al-Iʿtibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa al-Āthār de Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Maqrīzī (766-845 A.H./1325-1441 A.D.)” is a copy of the manuscript written by the author (al-Maqrīzī) himself and published by Al-Furqān as a faxsimile copy in one volume. This book is considered one of the most important reference works on the history and geography of Egypt. It provides a compressive overview on the history of Egypt, as well as the establishment and development of Cairo from the time of the Islamic conquests of Egypt to the fifteenth century A.D. (ninth century A.H.). This book has been edited by Prof. Dr. Ayman Fuad Sayyid and was published in six volumes by Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation.
Shared Knowledge
Bidāyat al-Mubtadī (A Classical Manual on the Hanafi Juridical School) by ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr al-Marghinānī
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)
Kitāb al-Tajrīd fī Uṣūl al-Handasah: Abridgement of the Elements of Geometry by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī (V AH/XI CE)