Manuscript Arab Heritage: A Comparative Study for Legislation of its Protection and Maintenance | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2016, Page 166-191 PDF (360.48 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2016.70291 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Nahed Mohammed Bassiouni Salem* | ||||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة الاسکندرية | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| 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: | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| manuscripts; legislation | ||||
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