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Professor, Dr. Kaspars Klavins Mobile: +971 (52) 84 20 592 +371 28350905 Email: [email protected] The United Arab Emirates National Library (founded in 1981) is vitally in need of an original building that would be designed in line with the traditions of Arab and Islamic culture and that would take an important place among other landmarks of this country that are world- famous. The many universities and their branches that have been recently founded in the United Arab Emirates need a single common scientific research centre that they all would use depending on their special areas.

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Professor, Dr. Kaspars Klavins

Mobile: +971 (52) 84 20 592 +371 28350905Email: [email protected]

The United Arab Emirates National Library (founded in 1981) is vitally in need of an original building that would be designed in line with the traditions of Arab and Islamic culture and that would take an important place among other landmarks of this country that are world-famous.

The many universities and their branches that have been recently founded in the United Arab Emirates need a single common scientific research centre that they all would use depending on their special areas.

تأسست قد انها علًم� العالًم، في دولة ألي األهمية غاية في الوطنية المكتبةعام المتحدة العربية اإلمارات دولة جديد 1981في مبنى إلى بحاجة لكنها ،

يكون أن يجب لذلك للمستقبل؛ ورؤيتها الدولة وطموح بمكانة يليق

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أن شأنها من والتي واإلسالمية العربية الثقافة تقاليد مع �ا متماشي تصميمهاالبلد هذا في أخرى وصروح معالًم بين مهما مكانا .تأخذ

The name of the building could be the Hill of Wisdom Bayt) بيت الحكمة al-Hikma) The building is spiritually symbolical, making one to sense the completeness of the universe given by Allah.

It is essential that the building should magically blend with the environment in the same way that the past blends with the present.

اإلمارات لدولة الدولية للمكانة حقيقية قيمة الوطنية المكتبة ستضيف . ال جزء هو الذي المميز المعماري شكلها إلى باإلضافة المتحدة العربية

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. جذب عامل يجعله مما � ومتميزا � متفردا � ومعلما األمة هذه ثقافة من يتجزأللسياحة.

As a national value, it might become a peculiar Emirates brand that would be represented on postcards, commemoration coins, etc. and also attract attention of tourists. As a result of a good positioning within the landscape the library building could become a bright landmark of Abu Dhabi panorama.

) ( الحكمة بيت إلي نسبة المبنى هذا على الحكمة بيت اسًم يطلق أن يمكن . المبنى هذا تصميًم تًم فقد القديمة بغداد في العالمية العلمية المنارة

أكبر أهمية إضفاء إلى يؤدي مما ،� وشكال �ا مضمون الدولة طبيعة مع ليتناسب. الصرح لهذا

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The two columns at the entrance door symbolise the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina). According to an Arab legend they are emerald columns from the Pyramid of Cheops, bearing inscriptions of the words of wisdom. The knowledge symbolised by the Emerald Tablet in the Arab tradition comes from the prophet Idrīs, who journeyed to Saturn in order to bring to earth the science of the heavens. At the same time, from the point of view of Islam this means that the wisdom concentrated in the library is not only a human form of knowledge, but a science revealed to the prophet Idrīs, regarding which it is stated in the Holy Qur’an in verse 19: 56-57: “Mention, in the

Book, Idrīs, that he was truthful, a prophet. We took him up to a high place”.

أعمدة من المستمد اللوحي الزمرد إلى المدخل باب عند العمودان يرمز – . هو كما النقوش العرب ألسطورة وفقا ، خوفو لهرم المميزة الزمرد

. الحكمة - من كلمات تحمل واضح

النبي من تأتي العربية التقاليد في اللوحي الزمرد إلى ترمز المعرفة. األرض إلى السماوات علًم تقديًم أجل من زحل إلى سافر الذي إدريس،

القرآنية اآلية في كما والمعرفة، العلًم على تركز :فالمكتبة

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Since the library should stand for the unity of the country, all tones of sand characteristic to the Emirates may be worked into the building as a confirmation of identity.

Wisdom emerges as if from a multitude of wisdom sand grains that are brought together, and the library’s appeal should be – donation of private book and manuscript collections for the needs of this one huge library that is available to residents, students and scientists.

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سوف الرمال من األطنان هذه كل البالد، اتحاد إلى يوحي المكتبة تصميًميتًم قد خاللها من والذي المتحدة، العربية اإلمارات دولة التحاد سمة تكون

الحضاري والطابع الهوية على .التأكيد

The motif of Idrīs (Hermes Trismegistus) is also important from the intercultural perspective, taking into account its former popularity in Europe (and in the West in general). It became known to Europeans in the Middle Ages only due to the Arab composition, after the translation of which into Latin Emerald Tablet was perceived as the symbol of the deepest wisdom in the West.

Emerald Tablet has been depicted differently in Europe (as an engraving on a rock, etc.). The image of this rock could be used in the design of the central hall of the library.

كان أوروبا في الوسطى العصور ففي ؛ الثقافات منظور من أيض�ا مهًم رمز إدريس. للحكمة رمز أنه على إليه ينظر اللوحي الزمرد

. للمكتبة المركزية القاعة تصميًم في الصخرة استخدام يمكن

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At the same time the building could be a place for the Royal Academy of Sciences of the United Arab Emirates. This institution would include certain fields of research which are unique in the Emirates, thus creating its own tradition of national science. The United Arab Emirates could be the right place for the first national Academy of Sciences of a Gulf Region Arab country.

اإلمارات دولة في للعلوم الملكية باألكاديمية الجديدة العلوم أكاديمية تسمية يمكنبيت – الوطنية المكتبة مبنى في لها األنسب المكان وسيكون المتحدة، العربية

.الحكمة