Increasing visibility of the Muslim world

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), recently awarded Columbia University and its peer institutions — The Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College — $500,000 to digitize Islamic manuscripts and paintings dating from 1000 to 1900. “Arising from an extraordinary confluence of collecting foresight, scholarly curiosity, and shared expertise, […]

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