Yes there was a huge archive in the Mogadishu Library. As the looting and sacking went on all over the country we Lost many of these manuscripts. And we didn't digitise them yet do they're gone foreverI was searching this forum for a while and yesterday I came across this man saying that there are 30,000 volumes, including 3,000 manuscripts that talk about lists of sultans, sciences, etc. Is there any update on the matter? It would be really sad if all these manuscripts were destroyed because of the war
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Well, there are 3,000 manuscripts. It is illogical that all of them were lost. At least 2,000 of them would be good if we were very optimistic. It would be a disaster if we lost most of them in such circumstances. Our Islamic history, at least part of it, is gone and we know nothing about it.
It will probably be recovered, there have been worse situations that information have survived.Well, there are 3,000 manuscripts. It is illogical that all of them were lost. At least 2,000 of them would be good if we were very optimistic. It would be a disaster if we lost most of them in such circumstances. Our Islamic history, at least part of it, is gone and we know nothing about it.
Not everything is gone, my grandfather had extensive books in Arabic relating to early Sufism in Somali and astronomy, he passed away recently but his book collection is with some of the clan elders now.Well, there are 3,000 manuscripts. It is illogical that all of them were lost. At least 2,000 of them would be good if we were very optimistic. It would be a disaster if we lost most of them in such circumstances. Our Islamic history, at least part of it, is gone and we know nothing about it.
This exactly what I was talking about. You have these western scholars who talk about history in the horn of african and somalia. When they have zero acess to like 99% of the sources in arabic what they do can't even be called scholarship. Anybody who writes the first history using these sources will absolutely flip the entire field of somali studies on its head.
I don't take these English books like IM Lewis as an actual history but more Orientalism with some facts sprinkled in.
allah yarhamuh , This is really good bro. I recently heard that a national museum was opened in the capital and it is said to be larger than the previous museum. Let us hope that these predictions are correct because in reality they will change a lot
Sadly a lot of our pre-Islamic history has been lost, but some of it has been fused into Islam but has been nuked since the 1970 and since the downfall of the Somali nation has been heavily influenced by external forces like the Salafist movement.
I can confirm that bro ,Through these Arabic manuscripts, our view of the Islamic world will change, and we have not even reached the ancient monuments and kingdoms. I see that Somalia has great potential as an Islamic history, so that it can easily be one of the hubs of Islamic countries with a very rich history and great influence.
I believe this is the way, clan elders have a lot of knowledge that is usually passed down via books.
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Bizzare, haven't had issue before.
