2,500 rare texts from Islamic world to go online for free
by Dalya Alberge from on (#54EBK)
National Library of Israel has digitised collection of manuscripts and books dating back to ninth century
More than 2,500 rare manuscripts and books from the Islamic world covering a period of more than a thousand years are to be made freely available online.
The National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem has digitised its world-class collection of items in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, dating from the ninth to the 20th centuries, including spectacularly beautiful Qur'ans and literary works decorated with gold leaf and lapis lazuli.
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