Damascus-SANA
The Simasatiya Library A book prepared by the researcher Ramia Al-Haddad and supervised by the critic Iyad Morshed reveals the Arabs’ love for culture and their passion for acquiring books and the knowledge, schools and libraries that exist in Damascus, the most important of which is the “Al-Khanqa” library, in addition to its most famous scholars and its treasury and the various sciences it contains until its arrival at the Al-Assad National Library in Damascus .
And “Al-Khanaqah,” as mentioned in the book, is a Persian word that was pluralized by Khawang, meaning the house. .
The book issued by the Syrian General Book Organization sheds light on the Sumasatiyah Khanaqah Library, which stored many historical events, and its shelves contained precious and unique manuscripts that were of help to students in their educational attainment at the time, and which tempted scholars to stop their books and manuscripts on them.
The authors of the book stopped at the Sumisatiyah Khanaqah in Damascus, which was located to the right of the northern gate of the Umayyad Mosque and was famous for many scientific and civilized civilizations, including the House of Wisdom, the House of Science and the libraries attached to it, which became among the contents of the Al-Assad National Library.
The book reviewed the most famous scholars who put their books on the Sumasatiyah Khanaqah Library, such as Abu al-Baqa al-Taflisi, a scholar in the Arabic language, al-Wadi’i, al-Armawi, and others from al-Khazneh and its workers, whose traces reached the al-Assad National Library in Damascus documented in the book reviewed by researcher Heba al-Maleh, the dates, images, indexes, and numerical and qualitative trends of manuscripts.
Researcher Iyad Murshid, who supervised the book, said in a statement to SANA: “It sheds light on the Sumasatiyah Khanaqah Library, which was in the Ayyubid and Mamluk eras, from a historical and urban point of view. Specialized in library and information science according to a statistical study, quantitative measurements and analysis of the structural features of these manuscripts in a scientific and systematic manner.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr
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