Past Projects
Summary of projects funded by the Islamic Manuscript Association since the Grant Scheme was introduced in 2007.
Click on the drop-down year heading to view a summary of the projects funded over that year. Click on a project’s title to read the project report in a new tab.
2007-08
| Name | Applicant’s country of residence (and focus of project if different) | Title of Project | Total amount awarded
(£) |
| Dr Mandana Barkeshli | Malaysia | Historic and Scientific Analysis of Material Used in Islamic Manuscripts According to Persian Historical Treatises | 5000 |
| Dr Stefanie Brinkmann | Germany | Publication of From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and their place in scholarship | 2400 |
| Ms Betül Çakırca | Turkey | Training in the use of a Vacuum Packing Machine at Istanbul Muftiate Library and Archives | 5000 |
| Dr Akbar Irani Ghomi | Iran (Pakistan) | Publication of the Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts of Punjab University Central Library, Pakistan | 2777 |
| Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan | India | Sustaining Memory: Indigenous Traditions, Practices and Materials relating to the Preservation of Islamic Manuscripts in India | 3500 |
| Ms Nil Baydar and Mr Paul Hepworth | Turkey | Conservation Treatment of a Seljuk Qur’an in the Collection of the General Directorate of Foundations, Ankara, Turkey | 5000 |
| Dr Irina Katkova | Russia (Indonesia) | Publishing Shattariyah Sufi Manuscripts of Western Sumatra, Indonesia | 5000 |
| Dr Omar Khalidi | USA (India) | Critical Edition of Tadhkirat al-Muluk, a 17th Century Textual History of Bijapur Sultans in Deccan, India | 2591 |
| Dr Firuza Abdullaeva | UK | Cataloguing of the Persian Manuscript Collection in Wadham College, Oxford, UK | 5000 |
| Dr Mohsen Farid | UK (Yemen) | Yemeni Manuscripts Web Presence | 5000 |
2008-09
| Mr Muhammad Ahsan | Pakistan | National Workshop on Digitisation of Manuscripts | 3500 |
| Dr Stefanie Brinkmann | Germany | The study of a manuscript of al-Bukhari’s Sahīh held in Leipzig University Library, Germany | 736 |
| Mrs Carol Burrows | UK | Focus on the Shahnama | 4509 |
| Dr Kinga Dévényi | Hungary | An Online Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Part I) | 5000 |
| Mr Abdel Kader Haïdara | Mali | Cataloguing the Ancient Manuscript Collection of Timbuktu, Mali | 5000 |
| Mr Stephen Hirtenstein/ Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society | UK | 'Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Manuscript Archiving Project: Creating an online catalogue for the historic manuscripts of Ibn 'Arabi and his school (Part I) | 5000 |
| Dr Alison Ohta | UK | Digitisation and publication of the Muhammad Juki Shahnamah, Royal Asiatic Society Manuscript 239 | 4950 |
| Dr Anne Regourd | France (Yemen) | Conservation of Codices in private libraries of Zabid, Yemen | 4954 |
2009-10
2010-11
| Prof Ahmad Al Hasso | UK | Editing Al-Sākhawī’s autobiography: Irshād Al-Ghawi, bil Is‘ād al-Tālib wa al-Rāwī lil ‘I‘lām bi Tarjamat Al-Sakhawī | 4600 |
| Mrs Carol Burrows | UK | Gateway to the Koran of Kansuh al-Ghuri | 5000 |
| Dr Anna Contadini | UK | Publication of A World of Beasts: 13th and 14th Century Illustrated Arab and Persian Books on Animals | 4826 |
| Mrs Alba Fedeli | Italy (UK) | The enhancement of the Mingana-Lewis palimpsest (Cambridge University Library Or. 1287): reading between the lines of its post-processed images. | 5000 |
| Prof Robert Fuchs | Germany | Arabic Illustrated Manuscripts from Egypt – Analysis of Materials and Painting Technique | 5000 |
| Dr Arif Naushahi | Pakistan | Union Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in Private libraries of Pakistan,(Vol. 1: Islamic literature: Quran, Hadith, kalam and Fiqh) | 5000 |
| Dr Alison Ohta | UK | Cataloguing of Arabic and Ottoman Manuscripts | 5000 |
| Dr Goodarz Rashtiani | Iran (Georgia) | Cataloguing Islamic Manuscripts of Georgian Archives (in English) | 5000 |
| Dr Anne Regourd | France (Yemen) | Preservation of codices in private libraries and mosques, Zabid (Yemen): Boxing new libraries, in the frame of the ZP. | 4967 |
| Mr Francis Richard | France | Digitisation of BULAC's Islamic Scientific Manuscripts, Paris | 4979 |
| Dr Fakhriati Thahir | Indonesia | Digitisation and Cataloguing of Watermarks in Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the National Library of Indonesia | 4996 |
| Dr Ali Akbar Ziaee | Iran | Editing and Publishing Hodjazadeh’s Risalāh Fī Qaws Quzah (Treatise on the Rainbow) | 1350 |
2011-12
| Dr Akram Khabibullaev | USA | Cataloguing the Manuscript Collection of Khwaja Muhammad Parsa (1345-1420 CE) of Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 5000 |
| Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla | France | Cataloguing of Aljamiado Manuscripts in French Collections | 5000 |
| Mrs Rajabi Abdul Razak | Malaysia | Reproducing Traditional Writing Materials (Inks) from Local Sources: A Special Focus on Malay Manuscripts | 4895 |
| Mr Saleh el Zeheimi | Oman | Cataloguing and Digitisation of Arabic Manuscripts for al-Kawkab Online Manuscript Library, Oman | 5000 |
| Dr Arif Naushahi | Pakistan | Union Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in Private libraries of Pakistan,(Vol. 2: Islamic literature: Sufism) | 5000 |
| Mrs Yasmin Faghihi | UK | The Cambridge Qur'an Project- Digitisation of Qur'anic Fragments from the 2nd-4th/8th-10th Centuries at the Cambridge University Library | 5000 |
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
| Dr Akram Khabibullaev | USA | Cataloguing the Manuscript Collection of Khwaja Muhammad Parsa (1345-1420 CE) of Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 5000 |
| Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla | France | Cataloguing of Aljamiado Manuscripts in French Collections | 5000 |
| Mrs Rajabi Abdul Razak | Malaysia | Reproducing Traditional Writing Materials (Inks) from Local Sources: A Special Focus on Malay Manuscripts | 4895 |
| Mr Saleh el Zeheimi | Oman | Cataloguing and Digitisation of Arabic Manuscripts for al-Kawkab Online Manuscript Library, Oman | 5000 |
| Dr Arif Naushahi | Pakistan | Union Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in Private libraries of Pakistan,(Vol. 2: Islamic literature: Sufism) | 5000 |
| Mrs Yasmin Faghihi | UK | The Cambridge Qur'an Project- Digitisation of Qur'anic Fragments from the 2nd-4th/8th-10th Centuries at the Cambridge University Library | 5000 |