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‘I have to protect them’: The man guarding Mauritania’s rare Islamic books
Preserving these manuscripts is crucial for maintaining the cultural and historical heritage of Islamic learning in Mauritania.
- Muhammad Gholam el-Habot preserves rare Islamic manuscripts
- The library is one of the few remaining in Chinguetti
- Chinguetti was a center of Islamic learning from the 13th to 17th centuries