Open AccessThe General Fund of Arab-graphic manuscripts and books of Russia and its importance for world science, culture and education
Author(s) -
R. I. Yakupov
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
minbar. islamic studies/minbar. islamskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7990
pISSN - 2618-9569
DOI - 10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-1-150-170
Subject(s) - acknowledgement , task (project management) , arabic , checklist , islam , cultural heritage , resource (disambiguation) , empire , history , classics , political science , ancient history , law , linguistics , computer science , psychology , management , philosophy , computer network , computer security , archaeology , economics , cognitive psychology
The importance of the study of the manuscript and cultural heritage of the Turkic Muslim peoples of Russia from the 17th – early 20th cent. is still awaiting its full acknowledgement. Although there is a general understanding of the necessity of this task, still there is no agreed plan of moving forward, not at least because of the complexity of the problem. Among others, the complex task includes such aspects as the source critical studies, bibliographical, theological and many others. Along with these aspects there is an important task, which is although preliminary, however, inevitable. It consists in creating a checklist of the survived books in Arabic script, both handwritten and printed, which pertain to this period. The author of the present article stresses the importance of this task, which is going to result in creation of an electronic resource, which would comprise the records of the survived Islamic written heritage in the Arabic script, which originates from the territory of the former Russian Empire.