Austrian National Library contains rare Arab-Islamic manuscripts

The Austrian national library is considered a treasure to Europe and the world because of the of precious documents including Arab and Islamic manuscripts that it includes.

Syrian historian Dr. Tarif Al-Saman, who lives in Austria, had participated in classifying the Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and important and rare copies which includes different domains such as mathematics, geometry, medicine, physics and theology.

The Arab-Islamic manuscripts in the library group a collection from the first Hijri century (the Muslim calendar), different copies of the holy Quran from Egypt and Iraq, Arabic copies confirming what the Arabs had reached in physics and medicine and other important historic Arabic documents.