Doha, January 30 (QNA) - The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs is working on reviving the Islamic heritage and enriching the Islamic library with the benefits of books and manuscripts and taking out the treasures of this heritage and benefiting from it through printing major sources of books and the revival of the Islamic heritage with the aim of printing and distributing services to Islam and Muslims.
The ministry is keen on reviving the Islamic heritage, printing it and distributing it to the public, Islamic personalities and holders of higher degrees in Sharia, universities, cultural institutions and libraries, in order to complement the role of the people of Qatar and their scientists in printing Islamic books and sciences.
The ministry is responsible for this role through the department of publications in the preparation of studies and technical specifications of publications and supervision of printing the Quran and also through the department of books and manuscripts, which distributes Quran and Islamic books inside and outside Qatar.
The Ministry provides these books to scholars, researchers, students and the general public.
It established a heritage hall for distributing books and delivering them to all groups of society through a mechanism that allows the distribution of books in a matter of minutes.
In 2017, the department distributed 44,194 books, benefiting 7,436 individuals and 1,375 institution, both inside and outside Qatar and in the Arab world and on several continents in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, the ministry's director of the Islamic affairs department, Khalid Shaheen Al Ghanim, said.
Al Ghanim expressed his appreciation of the efforts of the General Directorate of Endowments in supporting and financing the printing of Islamic heritage books, as endowment banks are a major source of support in financing the printing of the ministry's publications of Islamic books. 

 Al Ghanim noted that the efforts of the State of Qatar to revive the Islamic heritage and enrich the Islamic library with the benefits of books and manuscripts did not start now, but are due to the founder Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani, who printed a number of the main sources of Islamic books at his expense and distributed them to scholars, while his son Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim continued this path and printed a large number of books, launching a Qatari trend after them in printing and distributing books. 
Islamic scholars Abdullah bin Ibrahim al Ansari and Abdullah bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud had great deal of interest in books and this interest continued as the ministry has been keen to print books and distribute them with the highest quality standards. 
On the distribution of Quran in Qatar, Al Ghanim said that Qatar and its wise leadership made a pioneering step in service of Quran by printing it in unique calligraphy and luxury printing. 
Al Ghanim explained that the department of Islamic affairs provides Qatar'scopy of Quran for distribution in state mosques, especially the new ones in coordination with the administration of mosques, as well as distribution to state institutions, which require many copies for employees, especially before the holy month of Ramadan. 
The department also distributes copies to individuals in the heritage hall, in addition to the external distribution of individuals and institutions in a number of continents. 
Al Ghanim added that the department has a number of libraries that include large numbers of Islamic books and manuscripts, the most important of which is the public library, which is one of the oldest libraries in Qatar. 
The number of books is 19,100 titles of valuable and rare and located in 40.266 volumes, as well as the library of Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab Mosque, which was created when the mosque was established and contain over 1500 book titles in various Islamic sciences are available to all, located in 6,633 volumes The heritage hall is visited by hundreds of people from different sectors and nationalities to acquire Islamic books and provide them with Islamic sciences. 
The department of Islamic affairs continues to communicate with the various scientific and cultural bodies within the country to provide them with the latest management publications and to communicate with the cultural authorities abroad. (QNA)