The Qatari Books House re -printed the book “The Poetry Settlements” by Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, the former ruler of Qatar, may God have mercy on him. The release coincided with the occasion of World Poetry Day, which corresponds to the twenty -first of March every year.
The house stated in its presentation to the book, that it was a tribute to the founder of the Qatari Books House Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, may God have mercy on him, and on the occasion of the re -renewal of the house, we re -publish a book: The Poetry Settlements of Ali Al Thani, without any change or amendment in the cover or in the body of the book that was published in 1963.
The book contains selections from the eyes of Arabic poetry, collected by a writer familiar with the treasures of the Arabic language through its daily full councils, and the origins of these selections were some of the Karis written by His Highness, and at his expense they were printed in two volumes to spread the beneficial science, and facilitate it for people, and God Almighty has stood it ..
The house said that these selections, from the eyes of Arabic poetry, were collected by the hand of a writer familiar with the treasures of the Arabic language, where his daily councils were full of the study and interpretation of the Noble Qur’an, the noble hadith and its sciences, history and its hiddenness, language and literature, that is His Highness Sheikh Ali bin Sheikh Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani, and the origins of these selections were some of the prestiges written by His Highness in childhood under the supervision of his father. Freedoms of what he memorized, and in it the archives of his grandfather Sheikh Jassim bin Muhammad bin Thani, as it contains many groups written by Sheikh Ali himself after that, as he was recording and reproducing times, all that he was singing for him from good hair during his reading until he memorized him, and we often find in his manuscripts a lot of explanation of the stranger, and referring to the references ..
Dar Al -Kutub confirmed that the book in its parts is one of the best of the chosens, the first part of these selections includes many poems for more than eighty poets of stallions in the chapters of pride, enthusiasm and praise, and we have seized it with an index of rhymes, and another for poets, and the second part begins with the door of the description and then the rest of the purposes.
The house explained that the printing of these selections for the first time was a link in the wonderful glorious chain of works that His Highness started, and in which he completed the publication of more than two hundred volumes in the sciences of the Noble Qur’an, Hadith, Jurisprudence, Literature and History, all of which were distributed for free for the sake of God, and that a large number of manuscripts of our scientific heritage would not have seen the light had it not been for God for this generous man to her – a effort that we have seen from the same money.
It is worth noting that the Qatari Books House is the oldest Gulf national libraries, and was established by Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani (may God have mercy on him »in 1962, to enhance the position of the book in the Qatari society, and the library will be the center of intellectual radiation thanks to its provision of knowledge for the benefit of all groups of society.
