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May 08, 2007: UCLA Library Receives Grant for Islamic Manuscripts
"The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the UCLA Library a grant for a project to catalog, digitize and provide online access to the Caro Minasian Collection of Near Eastern manuscripts. "
"The collection forms a rich repository of Islamic learning and contains more than 1,500 manuscripts in Arabic and Persian dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries on astronomy, government, history, language and grammar, law, literature, philosophy, religious practice, and science."
