In collaboration with Berlin State Library and Corpus Coranicum, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation has put out a call for applications for a workshop titled “Quranic Manuscripts – Past and Present, Cataloging and Digital Tools...
A Rare Quran seized by police in the UK was taken at gunpoint from Istanbul in 2015. A British judge rules on the return of the important cultural artefact to Turkey. An armed robbery six years ago started the eventful journey for a beautiful and...
Egypt continues its effort to stop the sale of Arabic manuscripts of Egyptian origins, but could not prevent the sale of the extraordinary Qur’an made for the Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay. The Egyptian National Library and Archives...
Note: The following content is the courtesy of al-Furqan Heritage Foundation (London). In November 2019, Al-Furqan hosted its 9th conference in Istanbul to which I, Ahmed Wisam Shakir, participated by presenting a paper entitled “Yemen’s...
