The Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, visited the National Library of the Republic of Belarus (NLB) and met Susha, Deputy Director of the NLB. Mokhtarian said, “Last year, following the book reading week, which was held in cooperation of the NLB management with the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a complete collection of publications in the field of culture and literature of Iran was donated to NLB.”
“The views and philosophy of Avicenna have had a profound and direct impact on Francysk Skaryna, a philosopher, author, researcher, and father of printing in Belarus,” Susha said, referring to the book “Articles of the Conference in Honor of Avicenna “ among the donated books.
Referring to the available research books, dissertation, and works in the field of Oriental Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, and Persian Language and Literature in the National Library of Belarus, Susha declared that there are a total of 1000 books in this field, some of which are manuscripts belonging to the 14th to 18th AD in Persian, Arabic and other languages, including Turkish.
About the project of publishing a list of Islamic manuscripts, he said that project was research on manuscripts in the National Library of Belarus, in which since it had begun 20 years ago with the support of the National Library of Belarus, a range of activities had been carried out including translation of some parts of the manuscripts, linguistic analysis of the manuscripts, archeology of the manuscripts, literary review of the manuscripts, and their illustration and preparation for publication in the collection of Islamic books. Moreover, the writing style, the type of ink used in the manuscripts, the paper’s quality, and other details had been addressed.
NLB is the biggest library in the Republic of Belarus.This library is located in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It houses the largest collection of Belarusian printed materials.
The National Library of Belarus is the main information and cultural centre of the country. Its depository collections include about 10 million items of various media. In 1993 the National Library of Belarus started to create its own electronic information resources. It has generated a collection of bibliographic, factual graphic, full-text, graphic, sound and language databases that comprise more than 2 million records.
