Traditionally Muslims bequeathed their book collections to the mosques. According to 14 th century legendary traveller Ibn Battuta (1368), the Damascus booksellers market was close to the Great Umayyad mosque in addition to books, the merchants there sold all the tools of the literary trade, from reed pens, inks, leather, hard paper, glue, to fine paper. Lectures, debates and discussions on a wide range of religious, scientific and philosophical issues of the day were debated at mosques, which also served as courts. Most of the small libraries were part of the mosques, whose primary purpose was copying of books from Greek, Pahlavi, Syriac and Sanskrit into Arabic. Much of the book industry revolved around the mosque. Public Libraries in the Muslim world were known by various names like Bayt al-Hikmah, Khizanat al-Hikmah, or Dar al-Hikmah, or Dar al- ‘ilm, Dar al-Kutub, Khizanat al-Kutub and Bayt al-Kutub, kitab-khana (Iran), kutuphane (Turkey). There were madrassa libraries, public and private libraries, Palace libraries, Imperial libraries, and libraries attached to hospitals.įirst Arab library was founded by Umayyad Caliph Muawiyah ibn abi Sufiyan (602-680) in Damascus. As the graven images were forbidden, calligraphy became one of the elegant aspects of Islamic books. Public libraries appeared in Baghdad, Cairo, and Cordoba where books were made of paper. The Muslim World acquired the art of paper making in the eight century in Persia, ultimately Muslims brought papermaking to India and Europe. The word Library is derived from the Latin word liber, meaning book, whereas bibliotheca is a Greek word for library used in German and Romance languages. Libraries are considered teacher of the teachers. Public Libraries were first introduced by the Greeks.
“I cannot live without books” – Thomas Jefferson The Muslim World acquired the art of paper-making in the eighth century in Persia, ultimately Muslims brought papermaking to India and Europe.
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