Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat

Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat

Literature revealed that studies on the history of books or bibliography show the glaring focus on western books rather than Eastern and Islamic book production. The development of libraries in Muslim World, such as the mosque library, royal library, public library and private library has be neglect...

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Main Author: Wan Mamat, Wan Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Information Management 2013
Subjects:
Collections
Malaysia
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13905/
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spelling uitm-139052016-08-17T07:32:54Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13905/ Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat Wan Mamat, Wan Ali Collections Malaysia Malaysia Literature revealed that studies on the history of books or bibliography show the glaring focus on western books rather than Eastern and Islamic book production. The development of libraries in Muslim World, such as the mosque library, royal library, public library and private library has be neglected. The problem arises mainly because of the weakness of Muslims themselves. Prior to Middle Ages, the Muslims were in the frontline in the development of knowledge, but since then, the development of knowledge, albeit knowledge on Islamic religion were monopolized mainly by Europeans. During the period there were hundreds of universities in Muslim World. Almost every major cities, such as Cairo, Baghdad, Cordoba, Damascus etc. have universities. The same condition happened with library development in Muslim societies. The development of libraries and universal knowledge declined substantially since then, except on Islamic religion. The library development and services which were not given proper attention. Faculty of Information Management 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13905/1/AJ_WAN%20ALI%20WAN%20MAMAT%20JIKM%2013.pdf Wan Mamat, Wan Ali (2013) Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM), 3 (2). pp. 127-133. ISSN ISSN:2231-8836 ; E-ISSN:2289-5337 https://ijikm.uitm.edu.my/
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Malaysia
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Wan Mamat, Wan Ali
Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
description Literature revealed that studies on the history of books or bibliography show the glaring focus on western books rather than Eastern and Islamic book production. The development of libraries in Muslim World, such as the mosque library, royal library, public library and private library has be neglected. The problem arises mainly because of the weakness of Muslims themselves. Prior to Middle Ages, the Muslims were in the frontline in the development of knowledge, but since then, the development of knowledge, albeit knowledge on Islamic religion were monopolized mainly by Europeans. During the period there were hundreds of universities in Muslim World. Almost every major cities, such as Cairo, Baghdad, Cordoba, Damascus etc. have universities. The same condition happened with library development in Muslim societies. The development of libraries and universal knowledge declined substantially since then, except on Islamic religion. The library development and services which were not given proper attention.
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author Wan Mamat, Wan Ali
author_facet Wan Mamat, Wan Ali
author_sort Wan Mamat, Wan Ali
title Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
title_short Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
title_full Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
title_fullStr Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
title_full_unstemmed Librarians working with Islamic collections : Malaysian experience / Wan Ali Wan Mamat
title_sort librarians working with islamic collections : malaysian experience / wan ali wan mamat
publisher Faculty of Information Management
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13905/
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http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13905/1/AJ_WAN%20ALI%20WAN%20MAMAT%20JIKM%2013.pdf
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