Thursday 9 January 2025

14 August 2023

The Heritage Revival Division of Imam Ali(AS) Holy Shrine completes the indexing of over 10,000 photographic manuscripts.

The Indexing Unit that belongs to Heritage Division in Intellectual and Cultural Affairs Division of Imam Ali Holy Shrine had completed the implementation of a technical program that includes the indexing of over 10,000 manuscripts and more than 8,000 titles in its general program for the preservation and maintenance of various manuscripts coming from Arab, Islamic, and foreign libraries.


The head of the Heritage Revival Division, Sheikh Muhannad al-Eqabi said, "The Department of Heritage Revival is one of the most important specialized divisions that work on growth, development and upgrading work in quantity and quality to serve the manuscript and intellectual heritage."

He added, "The division was founded at 2013. The main objective of the Division is to revive the manuscript of the Shiite heritage and revive the publication, while strengthening the work of the Division through the establishment of investigative courses for those interested in learning the art of investigation."

He continued, "The division has many units, including the Investigation Unit, the Printing Unit, the Publications Unit, the Journal Unit and the Indexing Unit."

He pointed out that "One of the most important of these units' is indexing unit which works to index the various manuscripts of various Arab, Islamic, foreign, libraries, public and private libraries inside and outside Iraq."