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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.
Catalogue of the Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnian Manuscripts in the Ghazi Husrev-Bey Library Sarajevo
Gazi Husrev Beg Library in Sarajevo holds more than 10500 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnian. Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation catalogued and published them in 15 volumes (volumes 4 to 18). It also re-printed the first two volumes a second time. Gazi Husrev Beg Library’s collection of manuscripts is considered to be very substantial and varied. It features many subjects in Islamic and human sciences, such as mathematics, poetry, literature and grammar, all in Arabic, Persian and Bosnian. It also holds a number of rare, unique and valuable manuscripts which had been collected from a number of libraries (religious schools, mosques and several towns and villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighbouring countries).
| Volume | View Vol. 1 (2000) | £10.60 Buy the book |
| View Vol. 2 (2002) | £27.00 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 3 (1991) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 4 (1998) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 5 (1999) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 6 (1999) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 7 (2000) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 8 (2000) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 9 (2001) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 10 (2002) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 11 (2003) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 12 (2003) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 13 (2004) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 14 (2005) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 15 (2006) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 16 (2008) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 17 (2010) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| View Vol. 18 (2013) | £10.60 Buy the book | |
| Full Set | £293.77 Buy the book |
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| Contact: | Pariške komune 7 71000 Sarajevo |
| Telephone: | 071-53 45 21 |
| Date of establishment: | 1537 |
| Status: | Institutional |
| Condition of access | Appointment not essential, but advance notice would be helpful. Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 08.00-14.30. |
| Total number of Islamic MSS: | 9,048. |
| Description of Collection: | During the period 1867–1990 it expanded greatly owing to the transfer of many other private and waqf libraries from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most famous of these are the Kantamiri Library; the Mehmed Handžic Library; the Osman A. Sokolovic Library; the Karagoz-bey Library; the Elči Ibrahim-paša Library. See Elči Hadži Ibrahim-pašin vakuf u Travniku.By Alija Beyric.El Hidaje, 5,1942, pp. 169–179; 227–240; 276–288. The library has had its own periodical, Anali Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke, since 1972. |
| Notes: | This is the oldest existing Islamic library in Bosnia. |
| Published Catalogues: | 11 |
| Unpublished Catalogues: | 2 |
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