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26 August 2013

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Rare Islamic Manuscripts Stolen from Al-Azhar Library

29 rare manuscript copies of Islamic books have been stolen from the library of Egypt’s Al-Azhar University.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, the sheikh of Al-Azhar, has held the Mirath (heritage) Library’s officials responsible for the incident and given their name to Egypt’s prosecutor general, Al-Misriyun daily reported. A committee headed by Abdul Fattah Issa Idrisi has been formed to investigate the robbery. The stolen manuscripts are estimated to be worth billions of Egyptian pounds, experts say. The Al-Azhar University is the only center that had the stolen manuscripts and there are no more copies of the books available./149