Surveying

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.

The great bulk of the Islamic cultural heritage is to be found in the three million or so manuscripts that have come down to us through four­teen centuries of Islamic history. They range in subject from Quranic tafs'ir and fiqh to history, from astronomy to geology, from rhetoric to the ethics of war.