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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.

Natījat al-Fikr fī ʿIlāj Amrāḍ al-Baṣar by Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān b. Hibat Allāh al-Qaysī

Edited by Muhammad Zafir Wafai and Muhammad Rawas Qalaji
1998
Arabic
Edited text
1
9781873992364
187399236X
Book
Hardback
1
254
0.613 kg

The book elucidates the pioneering role played by Muslim scholars in the specialist field of ophthalmology. The book holds many topics on the subjects of sight, diagnosis, description and treatment of many eye diseases and disorders. The book also presents anatomical diagrams for dissecting the eye, the retinal nerve and the brain. An appendix with lists of medicines and formulae is also presented. The book, authored by Ibn al-Qaysī, was based on 73 books and 41 pieces of work.