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Islamic libraries are libraries associated with Islam and Islamic history. An essential term for Islam, the first word in the Quran is Iqra. This term simply means 'read', as Muslims are encouraged, through the influence of Muhammad, to devote their lives to the pursuit of knowledge at all times. [1] The Quran uses repetition in its text to ...
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library (MPDL) is an online project by the American University in Cairo's John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement and the Center of Excellence for the Middle East and Arab Cultures, AUC Library) and Indiana University (The Center on Philanthropy), that makes all forms of information on philanthropy available through original documents ...
The Islamic Studies library was founded, along with the McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, in 1952. It has grown from a modest departmental library to a respectable library of approximately 150,000 volumes covering the whole of Islamic civilization. The library is located in Morrice Hall, designed by John J. Browne, and built in 1882.
Mar'ashi Najafi Library. / 34.638999; 50.8772222. The Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library, in Qom, is the third largest library in Iran, after the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi, and the Library of Parliament, as well as being the world's third largest Islamic library, with more than 250,000 books, 25,000 of them online. [1]
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House of Wisdom. The House of Wisdom ( Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah ), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid -era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age, [ 1 ...
Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World is a 2006 book co-written by American authors J. Millard Burr, a former USAID relief coordinator in Sudan, and historian Robert O. Collins which discusses the role of Islamic charities in financing terrorism .
The following list of Australian magazines have been sorted according to circulation data that is relevant as of December 2012: [ 29] Rank 1. Name. Circulation. Founded. Publisher. 1. Australian Women's Weekly. 470,331.