[200 مخطوطات نادرة على الشبكة]
ـ[أبو محمد الإفريقي]ــــــــ[03 - 12 - 05, 09:19 م]ـ
جامعة برنستون
Princeton
في أمريكة ستضع 200 مخطوطات نادرة على الشبكة
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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jersey/13272781.htm
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Princeton will make 200 Islamic texts available online
The university says the effort will take four years and make the works available to scholars everywhere.
By Wayne Parry
Associated Press
PRINCETON - When a Muslim cleric or scholar painstakingly wrote a copy of the holy Koran in the ninth century, he could not have imagined how long his work would survive or what is about to happen to it.
The ornate Koran, written in lavish ornamental Kufic script on delicate paper, is part of the largest collection of Islamic manuscripts in North America, amassed mostly by a Princeton University alumnus in the late 1800s and given to the university in 1942.
Exceeding 10,000 texts, the collection includes handwritten treatises on philosophy, science, art and medicine, as well as literature, poetry and history.
Now the university is starting a four-year project to categorize the collection and post online about 200 of the most important works so that scholars around the world can study them.
"Our collection really is a world resource," said Don C. Skemer, Princeton's curator of manuscripts. "Every single subject you can imagine that you could find in a library, it's all there.
"You couldn't put a price on it. It's a collection that took over 100 years to put together."
Yaser el-Menshawy, chairman of Majlis Ash-Shura of New Jersey, the state's council of mosques, said the material would help scholars and ordinary Muslims around the world.
"One of the things that really makes life easier for Muslims is the availability of information on the Web," he said. "For instance, I have to give sermons, and lots of times it's so much easier today than it was 10 years ago. You just go online and enter the topic you want to speak about, and there's so much there.
"The higher up you go in terms of scholars, the more important it is to have information available. I think there will be a lot of interest in this."
The texts to be posted online will be photographed by special cameras that will not damage the delicate inks and papers, then scanned into large graphic files. Overhead digital cameras to be used for the project can photograph only about four or five pages an hour because of the large size of the files.
"It's a very exacting process," Skemer said. "You want to do it, and you want it to be permanent. You don't want to have to go back and do it again at some point."
About 200 of the texts should be scanned within two years, and it should take an additional 18 months to two years to have them online.
Other texts may be added to the program later, Skemer said.
Written in Arabic script in Persian, Turkish and other ********s, the manuscripts are stored in climate-controlled vaults guarded by an elaborate security system.
The online texts will be available with no strings attached. "There are no copyright issues with these," Skemer said. "It's a common heritage, and they will be available to anyone to look at."
ـ[أبوعبدالرحمن الدرعمي]ــــــــ[11 - 12 - 05, 01:28 م]ـ
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