ضياع المخطوطات و الأوعية المعرفية عبر التاريخ الإسلامي : الأسباب الدوافع

Abstract EN

Our written heritage (texts, manuscripts and knowledge repositories) has gone through many difficulties throughout Islamic history.

Some sources were helpful enough to mention a number of them and underscore their importance, but many were completely lost and no longer existed.

The reasons behind the loss of this heritage are many: some are related to natural causes and age factor, but some others were purposely destroyed or ignored (not taken care of).

Either way, the loss was huge, mainly because many cases of loss and damage included entire libraries and bookcases.

The motives and reasons behind that loss is the main concern of this research.

The study was conducted through analysis of different texts leading to the revelation of a number of historical facts and events that led to what happened in the whole Islamic world.

The discussion also emphasized some of these incidents and clarified them.

Finally, the results of this research showed that the amount of written heritage that was lost or destroyed was huge, that the methods of destruction varied and that much of the lost rare items is irreplaceable