Английская Википедия:Al-Aqsa Library
The al-Aqsa Library (Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Transliteration), also known as the al-Aqsa Mosque Library (Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Transliteration), is the assemblage of books in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound (Шаблон:Transliteration).
Locations
The library has two components:[1]
- The main library: west of al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Qibli).
- The al-Khutniyya Library: south of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Both locations are only accessible from within the compound.Шаблон:Fact
Main library
The main al-Aqsa library is a general library.[2] It is in a building immediately west of al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Qibli Mosque), inside the compound's south wall. This structure went by many names:
- the "White Mosque"[3] and Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang, Шаблон:Lit.)[4][5] because of its stones' color.[6]
- the "Women’s Mosque" (Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Transliteration), Шаблон:Transliteration (Шаблон:Lang "women's musalla")[1] and "women's hall" because of its former use by women.[7][8]
- the "Templars' Armory", because of its use before Шаблон:Circa as a hall or monastic quarters[9] or refectory[10] or armory by the Templars,[11][12][13] who might have it constructed in the 1160s.[9] After 1193 (during the Ayyubid dynasty), a mihrab was installed in the south wall.[9]
- the "mosque of Abu Bekr" (Шаблон:Transliteration):[8][14] possibly a misnomer by 19th-century Europeans.[5]
Its entrance faces the courtyard with the Dome of Yusuf Agha. To its west is the southern section of the Islamic Museum and the al-Fakhariyya Minaret.Шаблон:Fact
In 1922, the Supreme Muslim Council established the Шаблон:Transliteration (al-Aqsa Mosque's House of Books, Шаблон:Lang).[15] In 1923, books dispersed throughout the compound were gathered in the an-Naḥawiyya Dome.[16] After inactivity from 1948 to 1976, the library was revived in 1977; books were moved from the Islamic Museum to the Ashrafiyya Madrasa, and then in 2000 to the Women's Mosque.[17]
Al-Khutniyya Library
The al-Khutniyya Library[18][3] (also al-Khutaniyya[19][2] and al-Khataniyya[20]) (Шаблон:Lang) is a manuscript library.[2] It shares its name with a former zawiya and madrasa, which was named after a scholar, Sheikh al-Khutnī/al-Khatanī (Шаблон:Lang).[21][22] Шаблон:Small
It is inside Old al-Aqsa and on top of the now-sealed Double Gate. The library is in a Шаблон:Linktext (wall projection) attached to the compound's south wall,[18] at Шаблон:Coord.[23] Its access is via a tunnel under the al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Qibli Mosque). The tunnel's only entryway/exit is before the mosque's portico, facing north.Шаблон:Fact
This library began in 1998 as the initiative of a mosque volunteer, Marwan Nashashibi (1934-2014), and his wife, Um Adnan.[24] Its collection has texts on jurisprudence, hadiths, hagiography, Sufism and other topics.[23]
Services
Its director (chief librarian) is often also the director (head curator) of the Islamic Museum. [25][26]
It has about 20,000 books, notably on Islamic archaeology. Books are mostly in Arabic and English, with some in French. It has about 2,000 titles of Arabic manuscripts, from the 5th century to the Ottoman period.[15] Only researchers have access to the manuscripts.[10] It also has a large number of Palestinian newspapers and magazines, many dating to the early 20th century.[27]
It has a department dedicated to children and youths in the main library.Шаблон:Fact
See also
- Ashrafiyya Madrasa (the al-Aqsa Center for the Restoration of Islamic Manuscripts)
- Other Palestinian libraries in the area:
References
Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Coord
External links
- Шаблон:Commons and category inline
- Шаблон:Official website Шаблон:In lang
- Шаблон:YouTube (about 5 minutes): The clips switch back and forth between the two libraries and some interviews Шаблон:In lang
- Library's collection of manuscripts: 12th–19th century
Шаблон:Islamic structures on the Temple Mount
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web (Several photos of the buildings from the outside)
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite web (The spelling Khutniyah is on pp. 17 and 36 (also al-Khutni for the sheik).)
- ↑ An 1865 map with the label Al Baka'at al Baidha (bottom center)
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book [page number N/A in the limited preview]
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 9,0 9,1 9,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ such as on this 1888 map: Шаблон:Lang
- ↑ 15,0 15,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 18,0 18,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book. See also: preview at archive.org (free acount needed).
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 23,0 23,1 Шаблон:Cite web (The 1st photo shows how the al-Khutniyya Library is in a structure outside of the al-Aqsa Compound's south wall.)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book [pages are unnumbered in the preview]
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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