Author: Geoffrey Roper

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9781873992005

This text provides a collective bibliographical work, bringing together the work of manuscript scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, from all parts of the world, with the aim of enhancing knowledge of the written heritage of the Islamic civilization. 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. Faso, Chad, China, the Comoro Islands, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq (Part II), Libya, Mauritania and the Philippines, plus additional material on Indonesia and Nigeria.