Manuscripts Library University of Basra history and present

Abstract

I knew Basra as the capital of capitals of Islamic culture since time early, and saw the renaissance of scientific since its inception due to the presence of a large number of scientists from the grammarians and linguists, historians, writers and speakers and doctors, who were keen on Tersikhhm to scientific bases and schools known in Islamic culture including a school Basra grammatical and other and contributed to the building said human civilization in various fields of science and then abounded Ntegathm that استوعبته libraries ancient in Basra and moved them to the Islamic world, and very nice signal bigeye a scientist, visual, who was born and lived and died by the importance of this mixing and scientific exchange between scientists Basra and the Islamic world countries, he said: (( and demonstrating the benefit of the book, it not for the book is not permissible to teach the people of tenderness, Mosul and Baghdad, Wasit was in Basra and what is happening in Kufa in the whites of day until the incident in Kufa Dop Learning by the people of Basra before the evening)) and said it: ((minimum Basra)), and was City births scientists and pervaded the fruit of her children that Ahtute libraries in schools, mosques and homes, and pervaded by the libraries of the world, and the oldest of those libraries in this ancient city library bigeye, best known for his love of books and passion to it, and library Isaac Ben Solomon, which he described bigeye said: (I have entered the Isaac Bin Sulaiman in his command saw ... House books and around Alasfat and parchments and Aalghematir and notebooks ..)), and bookcase Abi Hatim Sijistani and bookcase Ibn Duraid, and library'm bracelet writer (d. 483 AH), known House books and collected books invaluable to scholars of Basra and bookcase strap Batken, and others.In modern times the first people of this city their interest to collect scattered manuscripts and the efforts of individual and systemic them Sheikh Ahmed Khan Bahadur, which became the nucleus of the Office of the University of Basra and the late linguistic Hashim Taan.The collection of manuscripts and make them available to researchers one of the concerns of those in charge of the University Library Basra since its founding in 1964, which was the nucleus Library lawyer Ahmad Khan Bahadur, which amounted at the time 470 manuscripts and acquired by the university in 1969 with a group of other manuscripts purchased from the late Dr.. Hashim Taan (Allah's mercy ) and a host of other systemic family of late and others. and most of these manuscripts in front Hanafi, literature, language, and other sciences.The first attempt was made to indexed in 1968 by Muhammad Ali morning Index 64 manuscripts printed Alru, then issued an index Professor Abdul Jabbar Abdul Rahman in partnership with one of the researchers Mijbil necessary Muslim in the late eighties of the last century magazine supplier, respectively. It is important libraries in Iraq because it:1 - turned aside from Basra intellectuals activity and the nature of their concerns.2 - reveal the activity of some cultural centers that were practiced cultural and scientific tasks such as schools, mosques and bookcases.3 - reveal about the history and activity of some well-known families in Basra and interestsWe will discuss in this research demonstrate the importance of these manuscripts that preserved and delivered from the harsh conditions experienced by the city in the previous era.