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Leiden University holds rare, precious collection of Arabic manuscripts

Leiden University Libraries has some of the oldest and rarest Arabic manuscripts dating back to early Islamic history.
Its precious collection includes leaflets of the Quran — the earliest complete manuscript in Arabic copied on paper — and the only surviving manuscript of a book by the famous scholar Ibn Hazam Al-Andalusi.

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