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Algeria: Scanned Manuscripts Online

Written byAmira Al Hussaini
Posted 20 March 2009 14:22 GMT

“The Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts has put a large number of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish scanned manuscripts online. Plenty of interesting stuff there, but one that particularly stood out for me was the untitled Treatise on ancient, alchemical and magical alphabets,” reports Algerian linguist Lameen Souag.

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