ISLAMICA, TURCICA AND PSEUDO-ISLAMICA IN THE NORTH EASTERN EUROPEAN LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Journal: TAFHIM IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World
Year: 2015

Hundreds of rare Muslim manuscripts written in Arabic, Turkic, Farsi and Slavonic languages are preserved in the Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Belorussian, Lithuanian, and Scandinavian state or private collections. Such collections are still arca incognita for the absolute majority of Muslim scholars from non-European countries. The purpose of this survey is to give elementary information on the location of these Islamic manuscripts in the Baltic and Central European collections and their general co