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The World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts is the first ever attempt to account for all Islamic languages in over 90 countries of the world. It also seeks to provide detailed information for all holdings, thereby filling a lacuna for collections not as yet catalogued and even for many catalogued collections where the work has remained incomplete.

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'It will be an essential item for any library which covers Islamic Studies in its broadest sense and will find a welcome home too in the private libraries of many scholars in the field.'<br>G. Rex Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1993.<br>'...the standard of both the form and the content is impressively high.'<br>Colin Wakefield, BRISMES, 1994.

'It will be an essential item for any library which covers Islamic Studies in its broadest sense and will find a welcome home too in the private libraries of many scholars in the field.'G. Rex Smith, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1993.'...the standard of both the form and the content is impressively high.'Colin Wakefield, BRISMES, 1994.

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The Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation was established in 1988 by the Yamani Cultural Foundation. Objectives and functions of the foundation are: to promote, sponsor and initiate research in the field of Islamic manuscripts, to assist in the preservation and restoration of Islamic manuscripts, and to assist in cataloguing previously uncatalogued collections, to establish a record of the manuscripts and build up a library, and to edit and publish Islamic manuscripts of particular significance, as well as hold academic conferences, seminars and lectures on the subject.

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