Alle origini della Bibliografia sulla numismatica islamica

The slow path toward the birth of the Bibliography of Islamic Numismatics started at the beginning of the 18th century. Special paragraphs on Kufic coins were placed in general bibliographies, indication of a growing interest on the matter. In the same years, the Islamic Numismatics gradually became a discipline with a specific methodology and the bibliographic works about it were not merely small sections of general ones. A first turning point came with the Museum cuficum Borgianum of Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1782), but only in the Introductio in rem numariam Muhammedanorum (1794) Oluf Gerhard Tychsen wrote the chapter Bibliographia numaria cufica, the first annotated bibliography in the modern sense