Imam Reza shrine’s Central Library unveils ancient manuscripts written in Mecca

Central Library of Imam Reza holy shrine has unveiled two 703-year-old manuscripts written in Mecca in the weekly cultural Tuesdays program of the Scientific and Cultural Foundation.

Participating in the ceremony via a video chat from Saudi Arabia, Hoj. Hossein Waseqi, an activist of Islamic and Shia works, admired role of the holy shrine’s Central Library in preserving these works, and said: “This library has got a significant role in terms of standard maintenance of manuscripts and it has always been great in cooperating with and offering most services to the researchers”.

Hoj. Waseqi also said: “The manuscript center of the library in which these two newly unveiled works have been keeping has also lots of works from many of which I used for authoring many works of mine”.

Speaking in the same ceremony, Mohammad Vafadar, an expert of ancient hand written works, said: “India’s Heyderabad is also one of the effective cities in the area of writing manuscripts. Many salient scholars wrote valuable works during the time of Qutb Shai dynasty in the peninsula there”.

Vafadar further noted: “Two exquisite works haven been dedicated by the Heyderabad Library to Imam Reza shrine’s Central Library in past centuries. Haj Sheikh Mohammad Momen in 1657 and Amir Jebreel, in 1627 were two figures who dedicated works to Imam Reza shrine hundreds of years ago”.

Speaking as another present expert in the ceremony, Seyyed Reza Sedaqhat Hosseini, said: “Isfahan, Tehran, Mashhad, Najaf, Shiraz, Karbala, Qazvin, and Mecca are the cities most existing manuscript in Iran come from”.

Sedaghat Hosseini added: “According to official list of Iranian manuscripts, there are 293 Mecca-written manuscripts in Iran; out of these number 31 are kept at Imam Reza holy shrine’s Central Library and two of this 31 ones are the oldest in Iran”. 

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