Like the Malay proverb, ‘Sambil Menyelam Minum Air’, a Malaysian student in Egypt went on a drive to collect nearly 200 old indigenous Nusantara books written by Malay scholars from around the 1920s to the 1960s during his studies at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
According to him it was written by several famous scholars from Malaysia including the first National Tokoh Hijrah Maal recipient , Dr Syeikh Idris al-Marbawi: Kelantan scholar, Sheikh Jaafar Husein; Kedah scholar, Sheikh Abdullah Wan Ibrahim apart from scholars from Indonesia and Pattani. Muhammad Nur Hadi said among other interesting discoveries was that he could see written evidence of the great contributions of Sheikh Idris who became an editor to books written by other scholars before they were printed for publication and his success in opening a publishing company in Egypt.
“Not all Malaysian students who come to Egypt do so, some of them will buy only one or two, because there may be time constraints, interest, energy and money to study these historical treasures,“ he said. “When he saw my interest and was convinced that I could keep the book for the future generations, he took me into the book warehouse and showed me the books on Malay tradition that were still there. So, that’s where I get most of the titles that no longer have excess copies,“ he said.
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