| 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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