TEHRAN -- The University Library in Bratislava plans to hold an exhibition of the Basagic collection of Islamic manuscripts and old books at Iran National Library and Archives (INLA) in late October and early January.

Head of INLA, Ali-Akbar Ash’ari paid visit to University Library in Bratislava, and met the University Library Director Tibor Trgina on Thursday.
The Basagic collection of Islamic manuscripts comprises 589 unique sources of world Islamic culture written by Bosnian Muslim scholars in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian between 16th and 19th centuries. However, it is currently kept at the University Library in Bratislava.
The collection was added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 1997.
Photo: A painting depicting the Kaba from a page of “Dala’il al-Xajrat wa Sawariq al-anwar fi dikr as-salat ‘ala ‘n-nabi al-muXtar” written by Abu Ali Muhammad bin Sulajman bin Abi Bakr al-Guzuli, one of manuscripts of the Basagic collection. (UNESCO)