JERUSALEM (AP) — In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come.

I am reading an academic paper named “Making Jerusalem the centre of the Muslim World: Pan-Islam and the World Islamic congress of 1931.” by N. E. Roberts. It shows, as we have mentioned before, that ...

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