The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi launches its mobile exhibition "Golden ink "

Abu Dhabi, October 8/ WAM/ The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, in cooperation with the Canadian University of McGil, launched its mobile exhibition, “Pontiff of Gold: A Journey through Arab and Islamic Manuscripts”, to highlight the richness, beauty and richness of the heritage of Arab and Islamic manuscripts and the prominent global impact it has left.

The choice of “Al -Watan Palace” came as a first station for the exhibition due to its place of cultural and architectural beacon that celebrates the cultural inheritance, and because of its national and cultural symbol that combines unique architecture with the rich cognitive content.

The palace is not just a tourist landmark, but rather embodies the vision of the UAE in consolidating the values ​​of dialogue and cultural openness, and the role of knowledge in building bridges between civilizations is highlighted.

The exhibition continues for 6 months as part of a special artistic residence, to be transferred in January 2027 to McGill University in Canada, to continue its journey in presenting this heritage to a world audience.

This initiative – which was launched from Al -Watan Palace in the capital, Abu Dhabi – is embodied in the leadership of the UAE in preserving heritage and ensuring its sustainability, and the efforts of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi in organizing and presenting the Arab and Islamic intellectual heritage and its interpretation before the world audience.

The exhibition includes an exclusive set of treasures of Abu Dhabi libraries, as well as prominent contributions from McGil University, the Zayed National Museum, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and distinguished special groups in the UAE, which gives visitors a unique opportunity to see rare local holdings, especially the holdings of the Zayed National Museum, which is expected to open this year.

The exhibition takes its visitors on an exploratory journey that extends over centuries of intellectual and artistic achievements, embodied by rare manuscripts on the intellectual and artistic heritage of the Islamic world in various fields such as science, literature, religion, art, and philosophy.

His Excellency Muhammad Khalifa Al -Mubarak, Head of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi said that the exhibition “Pontiff of Gold: A Journey through Arab and Islamic Manuscripts” embodies a living testimony on the intellectual and artistic achievements of the Islamic and Arab worlds and their global impact, and we also revive through the exhibition to revive Abu Dhabi’s rich heritage from manuscripts for visitors, and in line with our mission and our strategic vision in the circle, we confirm our commitment to promote awareness And highlighting the importance of culture, arts and heritage in building and empowering society, and the exhibition contributes to promoting international cultural exchange through cooperation with the leading academic institutions, and inspiration for new generations to estimate scientific research, creativity and rich and ancient traditions of manuscript culture.

In turn, His Excellency Muhammad Abdullah Al -Junaibi, head of the presidential ceremony at the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Chairman of the Palace Board of Trustees, said that holding the activities of the exhibition “Ink Menheb: a journey through Arab and Islamic manuscripts”, in the Palace of Al -Watan, expressing the status of the palace as it is a prominent cultural national landmark that reduces the civilizational scene of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which brings together the legacy of the past with the creativity and innovations Cultural and the exhibition’s message comes in highlighting the cultural, intellectual and human wealth in which the manuscripts abound between its books, to embody the aspirations of the wise leadership in reviving the cultural heritage, to remain a source of inspiration for generations during their march, a future during which they continue to what the first areas began the fields of science and arts and the manifestations that were manifested by the innovations that have been enlightened by humanity to this day, and that the exhibition contains in the depth of the exhibition Cooperation and partnership with international bodies remained the leadership of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and its relentless steps in preserving the humanitarian heritage regionally and globally.

Regarding the partnership with McGil University, Dr. Deeb Sani, President of the University, said that knowledge has an exceptional ability to overcome geographical, linguistic and temporal boundaries, and the exhibition “Ink of Gold” comes as a living witness to this fact, through an international partnership based on mutual respect, academic distinction, and the common desire to highlight the cultural and scientific achievements achieved by the Islamic world The Palace of the homeland embraces this unique cooperation that brings us together with a spirit of learning and dialogue.

The exhibition provides its visitors with an overwhelming experience that reflects the depth of reading old manuscripts closely, by deciphering and discovering its secrets and linking them with the hidden layers of meanings, and its design is based on the dual detection and concealment in a manner that promotes the curiosity of the visitor and stimulates him to take care of a careful exploration journey, reveals the treasures of the manuscripts a step after another.

The exhibition revolves around 4 main topics, dealing with a unique and unique aspect of the manuscript as a bowl of thought and vision and the visitor’s journey begins at the exhibition from the “Arabic calligraphy journey”, which tracks and reviews the development of Arabic calligraphy since its first inscriptions, to its high traditions that transformed the language into an elegant visual art, in this angle the written word exceeds the limits of communication to become a geometry of the meaning and form.

Then it continues its path to “the decoration of the written word” where the manuscripts are displayed as visual antiques, decorated with gold, colors and exact designs in this axis, it is not only celebrated in this aspect with what is read, but how to see it, as each page turns into an artwork rich in mastery, imagination and spirituality.

From decoration to thought, the visitor leads the path to the “footnotes in manuscripts”, which reveals to visitors a parallel world of knowledge.

The visitor’s journey concludes with “stone printing” to give him a glimpse towards the future of the legacy of manuscripts and how the traditions of manuscripts responded to modernity with flexibility. Through the stone printing, written knowledge gained a new horizon and a broader widespread, which within the continuation of the legacy of manuscripts in inspiration and development throughout the ages.

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