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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.

Catalogue of Arabic, Turkish and Persian Manuscripts in the Cantonal Archives, Travnik

Prepared by Mustafa Jahić
2016
Arabic
Catalogues
1
978 190 512 265 3
1905122659
Book
Hardback
1
328
0.713 kg
Mustafa Jahić (Editor)

This catalogue examines 122 manuscripts, containing 224 treatises in the disciplines of Qurʾānic sciences, Prophetic tradition, Islamic jurisprudence and its branches, Islamic creed, supplications, etiquettes, admonition, Islamic sufism, logic, syntax, dictionaries, literature, mathematics, astronomy, etc. The catalogue contains many rare works, or ones not found anywhere else in other libraries of Bosnia Herzegovina, such as “Miftāḥ al-fātiḥah” in Arabic, which discusses the qualities, merits, and exegesis of the Noble Qurʾān; the manuscript “Al-Fawāid al-fiqhiyyah fī aṭrāf al-qaḍāyah al-ḥukmiyyah”, which is a study in Arabic based on the Ḥanafi juristic tradition discussing Islamic law rulings related to the work of judges; “Kitāb al-Qaṣb” which is a judicial juristic work, and “Zubdat al-anẓār fī ḥal ‘uqad iẓhār al-asrār”, which is a book on Arabic syntax and morphology (al-naḥw wa al-ṣarf). This manuscript collection has special value due to the fact that it includes many works written by Bosnian authors, in addition to benefiting those wishing to study the Islamic cultural heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of the highly important Bosnian manuscripts –which can be found in this collection-, is “Al-Fatāwā al-Aḥmadiyyah al-Mostāriyyah”. This is a collection of fatwas in Turkish, authored by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Mostārī. The fatwas in the collection resolve issues and problems encountered daily, and have been consistently referred to by muftis and judges, up until the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia in 1878. It is worth stating that a large number of these manuscripts were transcribed by Bosnian copyists, who could be found in all parts of the Ottoman Empire.

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