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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.
Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam
The author, in this book highlights the importance of Arabic scientific heritage and the critical importance of its historic documentation. He also emphasises the role played by early scholars of mathematics in the development of Greek engineering, how it reached them, and how they developed and propagated it. The author shows the high degree of sophistication the Greek heritage underwent under Islamic scholarship especially with al-Ṭūsī and al-Khayyām, to the extent that no one was able to add to their contributions in this field until the nineteenth century. The positive effects of their contributions were manifest during what was termed the dark ages of Europe.
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Amrāḍ al-ʿAyn wa Muʿālajātuha min Kitābay: al-Muʿālajāt al-Buqrāṭiyyah li-Abū al-Ḥassan Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī wa Firdaws al-Ḥikmah li-ʿAlī b. Sahl Raban al-Ṭabarī
The Journey of Muḥammad al-Jūdī (Muftī of Kairouan) to Hajj Including a Notebook with his Study Achievements and Transmissions(Ijāzāt) - By Muħammad Ibn Muħammad Šāliħ al-Jūdī al Qayrawānī
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