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Manuscript Arab Heritage: A Comparative Study for Legislation of its Protection and Maintenance

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Documents and manuscripts express human intellectual life in all
science and knowledge fields, Arab world is reach in many manuscripts
spread all over the world, this heritage was exposed to many disasters
which resulted in wasting or damaging some of and due to its importance
and problems it is exposed to, some Arab countries passed different
legislations to maintain and keep its manuscript heritage, but we find some
countries passed manuscripts legislations and others incorporated under
their archeological maintenance legislations, accordingly this study
highlighted Arab legislations passed for manuscripts maintenance and
protections in Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and comparing them to ideal
law of manuscripts protection in Arab countries, the study followed
comparative analytic method depending on analyzing and classifying
these laws and comparing their particulars, the study found that Omani law
is more agreeing with ideal law in Arab countries than Egyptian and Saudi
law, the four laws agreed upon that national library shall be responsible for
collection, registration, maintenance, restoration and manuscripts copying,
legislations stipulated penalties ranging from damage to prison in case of
violating some clauses and prohibited exporting manuscripts abroad. The
study proved some gabs and shortages in legal stipulations:


DOI

10.21608/ijlis.2016.70291

Keywords

manuscripts, legislation

Authors

First Name

Nahed

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

Mohammed Bassiouni

Affiliation

قسم المکتبات جامعة الاسکندرية

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3

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3

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9757

Issue Date

2016-07-01

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2020-02-06

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2016-07-01

Page Start

166

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191

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2356-8003

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2735-3931

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1,052

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International Journal of Library and Information Sciences

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https://ijlis.journals.ekb.eg/

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Manuscript Arab Heritage: A Comparative Study for Legislation of its Protection and Maintenance

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22 Jan 2023