The ruler of Sharjah: "Dates" A gift for researchers in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula

Sharjah on July 29/ WAM/ His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, revealed the latest historical publications of His Highness, which is the book “The Complex of Dates”; And consisting of 45 volumes, which includes accurate and documented historical information, explaining that this book will be a gift for researchers in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and the light will be seen soon; Before the start of the next version of the Sharjah International Book Fair.

His Highness stressed the need to preserve the heritage and archaeological sites in the emirate, indicating that Sharjah spares no effort in renewing, restoring and preserving heritage and excavating the antiquities, registering and preserving them, reviewing His Highness the emirate’s efforts to search for “Kayed Bin Adwan Al Qasimi” in the city of Kalba, and rebuilding “Al -Qawasim Fort” while preserving the effects below and the foundations of the Portuguese in the city of Dibba The fort.

His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah said, “It is necessary to preserve and preserve the heritage sites,” we are in the Emirate of Sharjah. It is on the coast, and after the documents were published in a book of accurate information about all the castles that the Portuguese established; The other castle is about 200 or 300 meters, and the archaeologists said this Portuguese castle, while our specialists in the heritage said that this is a heritage castle; because it is an existing and complete. The castle was broken in full, so the Portuguese transported the rocks in which the castle was built to a high distance and rebuilt the castle.

His Highness added, “When comparing the two bottles, we find them completely similar except for one different angle, and we say that the original castle is the castle that was present and demolished the waves, and that the renewed castle does not match the old castle in this corner of the fortress, and he says that we built on the castle of” Kayed bin Adwan Al Qasimi “and I am looking for excavations around the castle, and the Portuguese was delayed in telling us that this is not the castle It was transferred, and after they told us about this, the Sharjah Institute of Heritage was directed to research the old site, and indeed they found “Kayed bin Adwan Al Qasimi”, and thanks to God we were able to preserve the heritage of our country. “

His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah added, “Within the Sharjah Emirate project in preserving heritage, we filmed films about heritage and historical places in the emirate, and the Lebanese” Rahbani “company is the one who did this work, they specialize in films, heritage, music and many things, and we made about 15 films about the heritage of the Emirate of Sharjah, the duration of one film ranges between one and two minutes, to be broadcast on television as a separation between the programs Something in our country, such as trees and others, is part of belonging to this land, and, God willing, we will rearm the topic of presenting the stories of these castles to historical films, as we did in the Khor Fakkan movie, so the people of Kalba are calling for the work of a historical movie about the city as the Khor Fakkan movie, and we will, God willing, do, and we strive to develop our country and development is to highlight the values of the country and hide things that distort the view, and praise be to God, we have a rapid rate God willing, future generations maintain everything we have accomplished.

In his talk about the heritage sites, His Highness went on to say, “We have a castle called” Al -Hosn “in Dibba, and this castle has a strange story, as it was present since the rule of the people who came from Hormuz, and when the Portuguese occupied the place, they built over the castle and increased on its upper limbs and built their castle, and I remained in this way until the Qawasim came, then Ibrahim bin Sultan built the fortress in the city in 1830 Abdel Aziz – may God have mercy on him – came to demolish the fortress of Sharjah and built on it a brick of cement. On top of the foundations of the Portuguese, we put a roof on it and the highest fortresses, knowing that we did not add anything to the effects below; This work took a long time; we say to them that we are working on this project to maintain heritage and monuments without tampering with either of them.

His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah said, “I work on a new historical project, which is the book” The Council of Dates “, and the light will soon be seen; They need it, and it will also benefit from those who conduct higher studies in history, and the book is characterized by the accuracy of its documented information and its arrangement because it is documents, this book will save the researchers with time and effort, and for everyone who draws his information from this book to use it in research, study or doctorate; that he does not put the name of the book “The Council of Dates” as a source of information, but rather writes the original sources of information, so each document is in the To its original source, the researcher must put the original sources in documenting the sources of his research. “

His Highness added, “We are looking and writing books to serve history. For example, I have the Dutch documents, which are since 1624 AD, as they begin after the fall of Hormuz and expelled the Portuguese from Persia, and this work took 4 years of research at the Netherlands Documentation Center in the town That research in different languages, and, God willing, we serve this information with history and the region, and we call on researchers in the Gulf region and the Arabian Peninsula, that the book “The Council of Dates” for the Arabian Peninsula and Faris, where it includes Oman, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Basra, Diriyah, Hijaz, Faris and the Ottomans in Baghdad, and, God willing, this work will be beneficial to people.

His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah concluded his speech by saying, “It will benefit from the book” The Dictionary of Dates “a certain group of people and they are researchers and scholars, but people have needs and we care about the needs of all people with all groups and ages, and we listen and search for people’s demands and needs to meet them, and when I listen to a complaint from one of my children or my daughters through the” Direct Line “program, call directly the authority responsible for dealing with this matter, and I speak with the directors And I explain to them the problem and the mechanism of dealing with it, we are not directing the officials only to meet the needs of people and address their problems; rather, we follow the steps personally and in direct contact with the officials, to make sure that the guidance that was declared during the broadcast of the program was implemented on the ground.

In response to the caller’s complaint, “Abu Khalifa”, who said that Al Dhaid University requires students to obtain a “IELTS” certificate to be able to join its colleges, His Highness the President of Al Dhaid University answered, in another phone call through the program; He said, “There are colleges at Al Dhaid University that requires the student to be fluent in the English language. For example, the College of Agriculture requires the English language, because it has sources in English, so the university requires that you be aware of the student’s level in the English language before joining the College of Agriculture, whoever does not fluent in the English language at the level that allows him to join the college will not reject the university, but rather provides him with a special course in the English language that enables him to find it at the level The study needs it at the Faculty of Agriculture, as the University of Al Dhaid does not refuse to accept a student because he does not have a certificate in the English language, as well as the Faculty of Veterinary, but rather qualifies them to join the college through a course in the English language as a course in the university.

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