Old manuscripts get facelift at Al Aqsa Mosque. By AP - Feb 01,2014 - Last updated at Feb 01,2014. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East ...

Most of the manuscripts were donated in response to a call in the early 1920s from the Supreme Muslim Council, a religious governing body, said Walid Ahmad, an education professor at Israel’s al ...

Hope to make them available online to scholars and researchers across the Arab world An employee shows an old manuscript at the Al Aqsa mosque compound library in Jerusalem. The library has a ...