The Significance of Islamic Manuscripts PROCEEDINGS OF THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF AL-FURQĀN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 30TH NOVEMBER - 1ST DECEMBER 1991 - ENGLISH VERSION最新文献
{"title":"Some remarks on Islamic scientific manuscripts and instruments and past, present, and future research","authors":"A. David","doi":"10.56656/100130.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56656/100130.10","url":null,"abstract":"There are an estimated 10,000 scientific manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish which, together with about 1,000 astronomical instruments, constitute the major sources for our knowledge of the exact sciences, astronomy and mathematics, in Islamic civilization. Most of these manuscripts and instruments date from after the most creative period of Islamic science, which spans the eighth to the fifteenth century. However, some late manuscripts also preserve for us earlier works which would otherwise be lost, and some late instruments bear features known to us only from early texts.","PeriodicalId":288421,"journal":{"name":"The Significance of Islamic Manuscripts PROCEEDINGS OF THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF AL-FURQĀN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 30TH NOVEMBER - 1ST DECEMBER 1991 - ENGLISH VERSION","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116990189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamic Manuscripts in the West","authors":"A. Piemontese","doi":"10.56656/100130.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56656/100130.05","url":null,"abstract":"A manuscript is both a text that is, a written document of a certain literary genre, and a handwritten work, be it a codex or a scroll. A manuscript as a whole is endowed with an everlasting value, and as a result is kept in libraries and archives as well as museums. The relevance of a manuscript is proportionally dependent on its main features: origin, contents, structure, history, ownership, and state of preservation. Its importance is partially related to the fact that the manuscript is described as such in a list or catalogue. How to define and record a manuscript is still a difficult methodological question.","PeriodicalId":288421,"journal":{"name":"The Significance of Islamic Manuscripts PROCEEDINGS OF THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF AL-FURQĀN ISLAMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 30TH NOVEMBER - 1ST DECEMBER 1991 - ENGLISH VERSION","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115484992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}