ISLAMSKI RUKOPISI (historijat, nastanak, procvat, stradanje i procjena vrijednosti)
Islamic manuscripts (history, origin, blooming, destruction and estimation of value)

Summary/Abstract: Under expression of the Islamic manuscripts in this work, we mean books written and copied by hand in Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Bosnian languages before discovery of the printing machine. Islam from the beginning payed a great attention to the sciences, making knowledge and search for it a strong obligation to each Muslim, male and female. It could be seen from the first verses of Revelation ‘Read in the name of God, who created everything…’ as well as Prophet’s (s.a.w.s.) comparison of ink of scholars with the blood of martyr, giving preference to the first. Induced with treatment of Islam toward sciences, Islamic rulers, princes, governors, rich people, merchants and other patrons competed among themselves in giving more to support sciences and learned people. That is, what made the first century of Islam so productive in translation and copying of the books. Initial spread of Islam was followed by quite big cultural and civilizational development based on strict Islamic monotheism (at-tawhid), on one side, and civilization on the other side. Muslims are, namely, conquering territory of the Fertile Crescent, Persia and Egypt, already from the first century of Islam have in possession not only a big geographical land but also the oldest centers of civilization in the world, with which they inherited an ancient culture with long tradition originating from Greek, Roman, Persian, Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian time. Thanks to institutions of endowment (waqf), in all bigger centers of Islamic world up to third century of Hijra, many public, semi-public, and private libraries which mainly were within mosques, taqiya, schools and the others educational institutions at that time were founded. In those institutions very often were copying workplace, bureo for translations, bookbinding equipment, workshop for paper production as well as galery for decoration and gilding surface of the manuscripts. Some of these libraries counted hundred of thousands and even a milion of manuscripts.

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