His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, President of Al Qasimia University, presented yesterday morning two rare manuscripts to the University's Islamic Manuscripts House.
The first manuscript is entitled "Books of Law in Medicine" by the author Abu Ali al-Hussein bin Abdullah bin Al-Hassan bin Ali bin Sina al-Balkhi and then al-Bukhari, and dates from between 370 and 428 AH 980 and 1037 AD, and is the first Arab edition in the world to write law books in medicine.
As for the second manuscript, it is entitled "The Book of the Editing of the Fundamentals of Engineering and Computing by Euclid" by author Abu Jaafar Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Al-Hassan, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, which is one of the first books printed in the Arabic language in the world and dates back to 672 AH and 1274 AD, and the book consists of 13 chapters, 6 of which deal with Flat Geometry and 4 deals with mathematics and number theory and 3 classes in spatial geometry.
His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah preferred to launch the website of the specialized Islamic manuscripts house, which is known for the house and its goals and services for students and researchers locally and internationally.
His Highness listened to a detailed explanation about the services and features contained in the website, which provide researchers and specialists with the best technical ways to benefit from the rarest manuscripts included in the house.
The website is characterized by many advantages, including its unique design, which contains a virtual tour with 360-degree 3D imaging technology, which takes the visitor on a tour inside the facilities of the house, enabling him to tour through his screen in all the facilities of the house.
The visiting site can communicate with the house’s officials about any manuscript available through the “Ask the home’s official” page, in addition to including a unique electronic search engine for searching all the assets of the house from manuscripts through the title, name of the author, language of the manuscript, authorship century or century The transcription or the scope of the manuscript or the manuscript material, and the site provides an electronic alphabet index that enables the researcher to sort and search for manuscripts, and to classify them according to the first letter of the manuscript title or the first letter of the author's name.