IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL

Since the early beginnings of our ambition, we considered a method which gives «Turathuna» its distinguished style among the similar circulations. From the first, the relation between the huge written heritage and the active movement of the scientific investigation which tries to pursue this heritage, was inspiring us to point out the importance of the scientific Islamic heritage whenever it was found,as well as observation of the investigation movement and some ways of developing it. Therefore our ambition in «Turathuna» embraced the both sides together.

For instance Sayyid Ahmad Alhusaini has started since the second issue of «Turathuna» to index books of some libraries. And it must be referred that most of these libraries-specially the private ones-had not been indexed before, for reaching them is much harder than reaching the public ones. Therefore Sayyid Alhusaini engaged himself by putting indexes for some private treasuries of the Islamic heritage, as indicating to the specialities, date of writing, name of the author and name of the copyist of their manuscripts. So in the second issue of our quarterly he