SURVEYING: the key to working on Islamic manuscripts
The al-Furqān's World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts is a collective bibliographical work which brings together the work of scholars specialsing in manuscripts, from all parts of the world (106 countries). The Survey seeks to fill the gaps left by previous bibliographies and similar works, and at the same time to bring together and update most of the information contained in them. It offers a guide to collections of Islamic manuscripts, details of access to these collections and their holdings, and information about particularly significant manuscripts which they contain.
Countries and cataloguers:
Afghanistan: by Ahmed Javid
Albania: by Gazmend Shpuza
Armenia: by Oleg Akimushkin
Austria: by Herbert Eisenstein
Azerbaijan: by Oleg Akimushkin
Bahrain: Bakri Musa 'Abdul Karim
Bangladesh: by Muhammad 'Abdul Haq
Belarus: by Oleg Akimushkin
Belgium: by Aubert Martin
Benin: by Amidu Sanni
Bosnia-Herzegovina: by Mohammed Zdralovic
Brazil: by Roberto Bartholo
Brunei: by Osman Bakar & Engku Ibrahim Ismail
Bulgaria: by Stoyanka Kenderova
Cameroon: by Peter Chateh
Canada: by Yusuf Ibish
Croatia: by Mohamed Zdralovic
Cyprus: by Hadi Sharifi
Czechoslovakia: by Jakub Karfik
Denmark: by Ellen Wulff
Egypt: by Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyah
Estonia: by Oleg Akimushkin
Finland: by Kaj Ohrnberg
France: by Annie Berthier & Francis Richard
Georgia: by Oleg Akimushkin
Germany: by Anton Heinen
Ghana: by B A R Braimah
Greece: by Hassan Badawy
Hungary: by Alexander Fodor
India: by M S Khan
Indonesia: by Osman Bakar & Engku Ibrahim Ismail
Iran: by Hadi Sharifi
Iraq: by Usama Naṣir al-Naqshabandi
Ireland (Republic): by Jan Knappert and David James
Italy: by Paolo Orsatti Bartolomeo Pirone and Aldo Gallotta
Ivory Coast: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Japan: by Toru Horikawa and others
Jordan: by Ismail Amirah
Kazakhstan: by Oleg Akimushkin and Anas B Khalidov
Kenya: by Ahmed Shaykh Nabhany, Yahya 'Ali Omar and David Colton Sperling
Kuwait: by Elham al-Mufti
Kyrgyzstan: by Anas B Khalidov
Latvia: by Oleg Akimushkin
Lebanon: by Yusuf K Khoury
Lithuania: by Hadi Sharifi
Macedonia: by Mohammed Zdralovic
Madagascar: by Hamid Haji
Malawi: by Augustine Msiska
Malaysia: by Osman Bakar and Engku Ibrahim Isma˒il
Mali: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Malta: by Hadi Sharifi
Morocco: by Al Mustafa Ben 'Abd Allah Boushouk
Netherlands: by Jan Just Witkam
Niger: by Djibrill Abu Bakr
Nigeria: by 'Abdur Rahman I Doi
Norway: by Eli Dib Wardini
Oman: by Bakri Musa 'Abdul Karim
Pakistan by: Muhammed Soheyl 'Umar
Palestine: by Lawrence Conard and Khader I Salameh
Poland: by Janusz Danecki
Portugal: by 'Adel Yussef Sidarus
Qatar: by Bakri Musa 'Abdul Karim
Romania: by Nadia Anghelescu
Russian Federation: by Oleg Akimushkin
Saudi Arabia: by 'Abd Allah 'Usaylan
Senegal: by Ousmane Kane
Sierra Leone: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Singapore: by G J Roper
Somalia: by R S O’Fahey
South Africa: by Muhammad Haroon
Spain: by Nuria Torres
Sri Lanka: by K M M Sheriff
Sudan: by Abu 'Agla El -Hussein Abu 'Agla, Albrecht Hofheinz and R S O’Fahery
Sweden: by Bo Utas
Switzerland: by Faika B Croisier
Syria: by Yassin Muhammad as-Sawwas
Tajikistan: by Oleg Akimushkin
Tanzania: by Hamad Omar and T S Y Sengo
Thailand: by Osman Bakar and Engku Ibrahim Isma'il
Togo: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Tunisia: by Ibrahim Shabbuh
Turkey: by Orhan Bilgin
Turkmenistan: by Oleg Akimushkin
Ukraine: by Oleg Akimushkin
United Arab Emirates: by Bakri Musa 'Abdul Karim
Unite Kingdom: by G J Roper and C H Bleaney
United States of America: by Yusuf Ibish
Uzbekistan: by Oleg Akimushkin
Vatican City State: by Anton Heinen
Yemen: by 'Abd al-Wahhab 'Ali al-Mu’ayyad
Yugoslavia (Serbia Montengro): by Muhamed Zdralovic
Algeria: by Mukhtar Hassani
Australia: by G J Roper
Burkina Fasso: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Chad: by Khalil 'Alio
China: by Mozafar Bakhtyar
Comoros: by Ahmed Shaykh Nabhany and David C Sperling
Ethiopia: by Hussein Ahmed
Gambia: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Guinea: by Baba Yunus Muhammad
Guinea-Bissau: by Baba Yunus Mohammad
Indonesia: by Roger Tol
Libya: by F M Shambesh
Mauritania: by Genevieve Simon-Khedis
Philippines: by Osman Bakar and Engku Ibrahim Ismail