Jun 21, 2008, 6:02 PM

Slovakia to send Basagic collection for Tehran show

TEHRAN, June 21 (MNA) -- The University Library in Bratislava plans to hold an exhibition of the Basagic collection of Islamic manuscripts and old books at Iran National Library and Archives (INLA) in late October and early January.

Head of INLA, Ali-Akbar Ash’ari paid visit to University Library in Bratislava, and met the University Library Director Tibor Trgina on Thursday.

 

The Basagic collection of Islamic manuscripts comprises 589 unique sources of world Islamic culture written by Bosnian Muslim scholars in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian between 16th and 19th centuries. However, it is currently kept at the University Library in Bratislava.

 

The collection was added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 1997.

 

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