Sharjah 24: His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, gifted the Islamic Manuscripts House at Al Qasimia University two original manuscripts that are among the rare manuscripts in the world to be added to the series of preserved manuscripts that His Highness had previously gifted to the house.
This gift is the eighth among the collections that His Highness gave to the house, as the house contains the most valuable manuscripts, the rarest original documents, and books with ancient lithographs in all fields, which were written in a number of languages.
The number of original manuscripts donated by His Highness to the house is more than 1,700 original manuscripts.
The house includes departments concerned with preserving, maintaining, restoring, binding, digitally photographing, indexing and classifying manuscripts.
It also receives visitors, researchers and students from inside and outside the university.