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‘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.

Handlist of Manuscripts in the Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Historiques Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu - Mali 2

Prepared by Various Cataloguers
1996
Arabic
Catalogues
1
9781873992203
1873992203
Book
Hardback
2 / 5
684
1.386 kg
(Other)

This catalogue describes in its five volumes 9000 manuscripts held in the Aḥmad Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in Timbuktu, Mali. It is a centre specialised in collecting the manuscripts of West Africa and cataloguing, preserving and restoring them. The manuscripts are written in Arabic, Turkish, and African languages such as Hawsa and Fulani. As for the contents of the collection, it is characterised by a wide variety of topics, scientific and religious, such as manuscripts of the Qurʾān and is sciences, Ḥadīth and its sciences, jurisprudence and its origins , the science of grammar and morphology, uniqueness of God (tawḥīd) and creed, the Prophets biography and praises of him. It also includes sources on Sufism, dictionaries, collections of poetry, invocations and litanies by the Prophet. Some manuscripts cover topics on the natural sciences, mathematics, the science of calculation, metaphysical sciences such as magic, trusts (awfāq) and astrology.

VolumeView Vol. 1 (1995) (sold in set only)
View Vol. 2 (1996) (sold in set only)
View Vol. 3 (1997) (sold in set only)
View Vol. 4 (1998) (sold in set only)
View Vol. 5 (1998) (sold in set only)
Full SetView Set Details £91.80