Al Azhar manuscripts to go online Cairo
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In an effort to promote moderate Islamic views and religious interpretations,
the prestigious Islamic university Al-Azhar plans to display its centuries-old
manuscripts online, officials say.
The manuscripts, some more than 1400 years old, are being touted by the Grand
Imam of Al-Azhar as a means to promote tolerance and moderate interpretations
of Islamic fatwas, or religious edicts.
"Highlighting Islam's tolerance and its open-mindedness is a duty," said
Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of Al Azhar, who is known for encouraging ties
between Islam and the West. Tantawi said the website would also serve Muslims
who seek legal advice or religious guidance.
Academics will have online access to about 125,000 books once the project is
completed. About 9000 of the books are the only known copies available, said Al
Azhar's chief librarian, Mohammed Shawqi Subki.
"Our aim is to reach out to those academics who want to learn and study Islam
from its real sources," said Subki.
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The website, expected to be complete by June next year, will include about
42,000 manuscripts. The $US5 million project is financed by the crown prince of
Dubai.
Abdellah Al Karam, a representative to the Dubai leader, said about 300,000
pages of manuscripts had been scanned at a rate of 4000 pages a day. He said
once it was completed the project would have direct electronic links with other
world universities.
"This marks a new beginning for Al Azhar, which is leaping into the
information age and taking the past into the present," said Al Karam.
One of the most important manuscripts to be shown is What is Strange in
Hadith, a book about the Prophet Muhammad's sayings written about 1000 years
ago by Ibn Salam, a renowned scholar of the time.
The Fatimids - Shias who invaded Egypt from Tunisia - founded Al Azhar during
their 10th and 11th century rule of Egypt. Later it became the Sunni world's
most prestigious seat of learning.
The mosque drew scholars from across the Muslim world and grew into a
university, predating similar developments at Oxford University in London by
more than a century.
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