The Arabic manuscript magazine highlights (the art of document verification)

Damascus-SANA

In its second issue, the Arabic Manuscript Journal sheds light on the art of document verification, the challenges that stand in the way of the cataloger of manuscripts, and ways to solve them, in addition to many issues related to manuscript science.

The second issue of the magazine, issued by the Ministry of Culture, the Syrian General Book Organization, included various titles and topics, including the journey of Arabic writing between Himyarite and Syriac by Muhammad Adnan al-Jawharji, while Dr. Buthaina Jalkhi wrote about rubies in the Arab scientific heritage and Dr. Abbas Merhej Faraj on the history of Ibn Khaldun and Dr. Abdel Nasser Ismail Assaf wrote his article under the title of re-investigation of manuscripts.

The speech of the Ministry of Culture in the magazine touched on the art of investigation, as it indicated that the investigation of manuscripts of all kinds is carried out according to a well-known methodology that must be followed. It has its writer’s approach, logic and thought, with the need to preserve the text without addition or deletion, and without correction or improvement.

Regarding the oriental manuscripts in the Russian National Library, which number about 28 thousand manuscripts, Dr. Thaer Zain al-Din wrote in his article in the magazine, revealing an impressive group of these manuscripts in the Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg, which was founded in 1795 AD, the history of the development of handwriting in the East, indicating that a number of Many of them are rare in content and unique in kind, and represent works that were not known before, as well as a variety of topics in literature, history, lexicons and theses in linguistics, philosophy, religion and others.

It is noteworthy that the Arabic manuscript is a semi-annual scientific journal concerned with manuscripts, their investigation and the history of science among the Arabs, with the aim of meeting the needs of readers and those interested in the texts of Arab heritage and revealing its treasures hidden in the libraries of the world.

Shatha Hammoud

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