Al-Awqaf Library

The Al-Awqaf Library is a library located next to the Iraq National Library and Archive. It held about 5,000 Islamic manuscripts. It was looted and burnt in the 2003 Iraq War.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Assessment of damage to Libraries and Archives in Iraq (Archived at WebCite)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 17, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.