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Khizanat al-Turath - Fihris Makhtutat
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Khizanat al-Turath - Fihris Makhtutat (The Treasury of Heritage: Manuscript Index) is a comprehensive bibliographic index and union catalog of Islamic manuscripts compiled and issued by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .
Overview and Scope
The project serves as a major bibliographic repository documenting Islamic manuscript holdings across various libraries, archives, and specialized manuscript centers worldwide . Its primary objective is to record the physical locations and shelfmarks of Islamic manuscript copies held in international collections, facilitating access and research for scholars and editors of classical Arabic texts .
Structure and Content
The entries in the index are arranged systematically according to individual texts and manuscript copies . Each record typically details:
- Subject Classification: The specific discipline of the work, including Quranic sciences (ulum al-Qur'an), Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence across the major schools (fiqh), Arabic grammar (nahw), morphology (sarf), rhetoric (balagha), theology (ilm al-kalam), history, biography (tarajim), logic (mantiq), and other traditional Islamic sciences .
- Bibliographical Identification: The title and variant titles of the book, the author's full name, and death date in both the Islamic Hijri and Gregorian calendars when available .
- Holding Information: The holding institution, its city and country, the manuscript's specific call number or shelfmark, and whether the copy is an independent manuscript, part of a composite codex (majmu'), or a fragment .
In addition to holdings from the King Faisal Center's own collections in Riyadh, the index references manuscript copies preserved across numerous other repositories, such as national libraries and university archives across the Islamic world and internationally .
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