31.01.2014                      30.Schwat.5774                      Rosch Chodesch 1

Feature:

Old manuscripts get face-lift at al-Aqsa mosque

4,000 manuscripts, some dating back 900 years, to be digitized and made available to scholars across the Arab world unable to travel to Jerusalem.

In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come. Jerusalem was soon flushed with writings of all kinds, to be stored and preserved at the newly minted al-Aqsa mosque library….