Libraryblog

“National Library, inaugurated in 1977 with a building of 10.240 m2, built in the arabic architectural arabic stile, special in windows and lattices, architectonic jewel thanks to its beauty, spaciousness and services, had thousands of manuscripts, all of them fuel to the flames. Among the most relevant losses we shoud emphasise: El Canon en Medicina de Avicena (980-1037 d. C.), that was manual of medicine universities for centuries, not only in Slamic countries but also in mast of the occidental countries; Tratado sobre los números de Abu Said al-Magribi (1819); Tratado sobre pesos y medidas de Kadim b. Qasim al-Hasani (1851); Najh al-Balaga (El Camino de la retórica) de Ali b. Abi Talib, Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, year 1160. Maniuscripts also included in the National Library written in Persian and Turkish were burnt too.They have also lost the whole documental section about the Ottoman Empire kept in the library, including thousands of letters and missives; the collection formed by near half million of documents related to the Hachimita Family, to which the Iraq Royal Family belonged, and also all their private books, kept there. A big number of letters and missives refered to the relationship between Iraq and the Sharif Husayn of Meca before the Great Arabic Revolution”