House of Wisdom" He concludes his participation in the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat

Sharjah, April 30 / WAM / The House of Wisdom concluded its participation in the Sharjah program, guest of honor of the 30th session of the International Publishing and Writers Exhibition in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, organized by the Culture Sector at the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Moroccan Communication, through a epistemic program that highlighted the exploration of the legacy of trips literature in Islamic civilization.

The wing of the House of Wisdom witnessed the visit of Sheikha Badour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sharjah Book Authority, accompanied by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rashid bin Al Hassan and His Excellency Ahmed bin Rakad Al -Amiri, CEO of the Sharjah Book Authority and a number of prominent personalities, where they were received by Marwa Al -Aqoubi, Executive Director of the House of Wisdom in Sharjah, who provided them with an explanation of the wing of the House of wisdom, its sections and the manuscripts that review The audience of the exhibition has aspects of Arab scientific heritage in trips literature and marine navigation sciences.

The Beit Al -Hikma pavilion also witnessed the visit of Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al -Nuaimi, head of the Municipality and Planning Department in Ajman, Vice -Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ajman University and His Excellency Naima Ibn Yahya, Minister of Solidarity and Social Integration and the Family in Morocco, as part of a tour of the Sharjah Pavilion, which presented more than 50 various activities that included intellectual sessions, poetry evenings, interactive workshops for children and adolescents.

And Marwa Al -Aqroubi said that Morocco has a unique privacy in Arab and Islamic history, as it is a vivid extension of the cultural and knowledge influence that the Islamic civilization lit for centuries, and from here comes the participation of the House of Wisdom in the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat as a link and interaction between the East and Morocco and opens the way for a knowledge dialogue that goes beyond geography towards the common values ​​that united Arabs and Muslims throughout history.

She added: The choice of Sharjah was a global capital of the book for the year 2019, an inspiring station in the process of enhancing knowledge and celebrating the book, which was crowned with the establishment of the House of Wisdom as a prominent cultural and knowledge edifice, and later the choice of UNESCO for the city of Rabat is a global capital of the book for the year 2026 to confirm the depth of cultural ties between Sharjah and Rabat and reflects the commitment of the United Arab Emirates and the sister Kingdom of Morocco to support culture and preserve human heritage Common.

On the sidelines of the participation, the House of Wisdom Pavilion hosted a dialogue session entitled: “Chapters of Islamic Art: Literature of Trips – Explore the Tringer of Trips through Ahmed Ibn Majid and Ibn Battuta”. Ibn Majid and Ibn Battuta in documenting the human experience and various observations through their decades’ travels.

The House of Wisdom Pavilion also organized a set of activities and events that knew the audience of the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat, with its pioneering cultural initiatives, including the second version of the exhibition “Chapters of Islamic Art”, which is held in the House of Wisdom in Sharjah until next July 5 under the title “Literature of Tour” and reviews the emergence of pathology and kingdom Experience an interactive virtual tour of the audience to see the contents of the exhibition and its sections.

In his participation, the House of Wisdom presented a group of rare books and manuscripts that highlighted the contributions of the great Arab travelers and navigators. The exhibits included a manuscript entitled “Araghaz Ibn Majid”, which is a rare manuscript that includes the collection of poems, verses and messages that Ahmed Ibn Majid wrote in the literature of the seas and bears great scientific importance due to its inclusion of poetic texts that were not previously documented in Ibn The well -known Majid.

The exhibits also included a book “A statement of the historians of the mortality in the innocence of Ibn Majid”, which is a book written by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, through which His Highness stipulated many documented scientific evidences that absolve Ibn Majid from the claim that he helped the Portuguese to reach India and occupy it at a later time.

A rare manuscript was also presented from the book of the journey of Ibn Battuta called “The masterpiece of the groove in the strangeness of the Al -Amsar and the wonders of the travel”, a book of two parts that documents the exceptional journey that Ibn Battuta fought for nearly thirty years and included social, cultural and humanitarian observations through nearly 44 countries in India, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the East and parts of Europe. This book was printed in the print Al -Amiriya Bulaq in Cairo in 1933 AD, and it was translated into several languages ​​such as Portuguese, French and English, and chapters were translated from it into German.

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