Ahmed bin Saif Al-Hinai-Muscat

Dr. Shamsa Al-Musafer suffers from the difficulty of accessing manuscripts and ancient heritage sources in order to support her academic research. Many Omani manuscripts are distributed among several official bodies and some private libraries, which exhausts her time and effort to reach her goal.

Dr. Shamsa, an academic and head of the Department of Documentation and Archives at the Middle East College, was greatly disturbed by the launch of the electronic platform of the Manuscripts Department of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and made available to all researchers, scholars and practitioners in the field of manuscript science from all over the world.

Inside this platform: (https://manuscripts.mhc.gov.om/en/) finds that it is designed in an attractive and easy visual and technical language free of the complexities of software, making it easier for the researcher to discover this intellectual and national balance of more than four thousand manuscripts Divided into four fields, most of them on the human sciences of interpretation, Hadith, Koran sciences, jurisprudence and history, to literature, Arabic language, astronomy, medicine and marine sciences.

As the visual presentation of the library of the manuscripts in the House indicates that the manuscript of "combining the correct" with Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abi Nasir al-Humaidi is the oldest Omani manuscript in the Hadith of the year 617 AH (1280 AD) Dating back to 654 AH / 1256 AD is one of the very best medical literature that contains detailed drawings of the brain, nerves and anatomy of the human body.

Al-Dar made great efforts to obtain these rare manuscripts, whether by forming a committee to provide material compensation to the people who donated valuable manuscripts that they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers, or to make organized visits to those who have rare and valuable manuscripts in their private libraries to encourage them to put them in the house. It is a safe place to keep and take care of.

Manuscripts of Abu Nawas
The statistics of the electronic platform indicate that "the evidence and news in the characteristics of Dhofar - History of Dhofar" by Abdullah bin Jaafar al-Kathiri, born in the tenth century / fifteenth century AD is the most visited so far with the "Mukhtar of poetry Abu Nawas" by Hassan bin Hani Abu Nawas.

Launch of the electronic platform for Omani manuscripts (Al Jazeera Net)

The manuscript of "Law Dictionary" by Jamil bin Khamis al-Saadi and "Bian al-Shara" by Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Kindi, the best-selling book, was written by Abdullah bin Omar al-Shirazi al-Baydawi, "The Path and the Red Cross" by Salama bin Muslim al-Awtbi, the most read one month after the launch of the podium.

It is hoped that this platform will contribute to the achievement of these manuscripts and printing them revised on multiple copies, and the dissemination of the contributions of the Omani man and his intellectual stock across the various fields and sciences.

The head of the Omani Association for Writers and Literature, poet Said Saqlawi, notes that it is important that the cultural institutions keep pace with the age from the technical and informational point of view, as the largest libraries in the world provide sources and intellectual resources such as the Library of Congress, the British Library, the British Archives, the French National Library and other cultural, research and heritage institutions. Through electronic platforms to provide manuscripts in the easiest and effortless and some without charge.

The Omani researchers believe that all manuscripts should be made available to all national institutions concerned with cultural, scientific, research and Omani libraries through similar electronic platforms to facilitate the follow-up of cultural, research and historical development, as expressed by Omani history researcher Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Arimi. Historical sources of Oman because of the lack of interest in the historical aspect of scientists as much as their interest in religious aspects.

He pointed out that those who wrote in history often started from different purposes, either religious or documenting some personal paths, stressing the urgent need to return these manuscripts to develop historical details of Omani history, which is deeply involved in human civilization.