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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.

The Objectives of Sharīʿah in al-Ṭāhir bin ʿAshūr’s Thoughts (Research articles)

By Various Contributors, Edited by Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation
2013
Arabic
Courses
1
9781905650316
Book
Hardback
1
238
0.530 kg

This book covers the proceedings of the Fifth Training Course organised by the Centre for the Study of the Philosophy of Islamic Law, affiliated to al-Furqān, in cooperation with Alexandria University’s Faculty of Law. It took place in March 2011. Among the lecturers in this training course were renowned professors in Sharīʿah and law sciences such as Dr. Mohamed Salim El-Awa, Dr. Abd al-Majid al-Najjar, Dr. Mohammad Kamal Imam, Dr. Usama al-Fuli, Dr. Muhammad Nabil Ghanaim, Dr. Ahmad al-Hindi, Dr. Jabir Abd al-Hadi al-Shafiʿi and others. The studies submitted in this training course centred on the trends of the objectives of Islamic law in Ṭāhir ibn ʿĀshūr’s works as compared with Imām al-Shāṭibī’s. They also dealt with ibn ʿĀshūr’s work Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah al-Islāmiyyah (The Objectives of Islamic Law) in its historical context as well as with the objective of freedom, wealth and family law and the rules governing the objectives of Islamic law in Ṭāhir ibn ʿĀshūr’s view.