arabstateofmind: When Sarajevo fell under siege in 1992, Mustafa Jahic, director of the Gazi Husrav Beg Library, decided that the 10,000 manuscripts it held must be saved. ‘Saving the documents of civilisation is in my opinion, equal to saving human lives,’ Jahic says. ‘Books are our past, our roots. Without the past, we don’t have a present or a future.’ This 19th century illuminated Koran by Serifovic Mushaf, along with more than 10,000 other unique manuscripts spent three years in dusty basements at the mercy of Serbian Nationalist shells. Photograph: Oxford Film & Television Ltd/Sam Hobkinson

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When Sarajevo fell under siege in 1992, Mustafa Jahic, director of the Gazi Husrav Beg Library, decided that the 10,000 manuscripts it held must be saved. ‘Saving the documents of civilisation is in my opinion, equal to saving human lives,’ Jahic says. ‘Books are our past, our roots. Without the past, we don’t have a present or a future.’

This 19th century illuminated Koran by Serifovic Mushaf, along with more than 10,000 other unique manuscripts spent three years in dusty basements at the mercy of Serbian Nationalist shells. Photograph: Oxford Film & Television Ltd/Sam Hobkinson

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