Last updated |
20th April 2007 |
Name of library |
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation Library |
Address |
Eagle House, High Street, Wimbledon, London SW19 5EF |
Telephone |
020 8944 1233 |
Fax |
020 8944 1633 |
E-mail |
library@al-furqan.com |
Website |
http://www.al-furqan.com |
Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Jasmine Ansari / Magdalene Coulson |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
Postgraduate/Research Students, Scholars |
Terms of access |
By appointment |
Opening hours |
M-F 0930 – 1700 Closed weekends and bank-holidays |
Disabled access |
Stairs to ground floor library |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Reciprocate lending to selected libraries. Lending extended to MA/PhD students by special arrangement. |
Number of volumes |
16,000 |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
27 |
Current Periodicals |
50 |
Other materials |
Microfilms of mss. Microfiche |
Volumes added per year |
500 |
Coverage |
Islamic Studies (Koran, prophetic traditions, law, theology, philosophy, Sufism, ethics) |
Special Collections |
Manuscript catalogs, Manuscript surveys, Institut fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften (complete series), Islamic Encyclopaedias, Bio-bibliographies (modern and classical) |
Manuscripts |
Approx. 8,000 Bosnian mss on microfilm from Ghazi Husrev-Bey library in Sarajevo |
Research resource |
Islamic studies, especially related to Islamic mss., their preservation and conservation in the world |
Catalogue Type |
Computer |
URL of catalogue |
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Other facilities |
Photocopying |
Full Time Staff |
1 |
Part Time Staff |
1 |
Voluntary Staff |
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Changes in next five years affecting the above |
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Anything else about the library |
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