European Parliament 8 May 2013, Written question E-005122/13 Charles Tannock (ECR) to the Commission. Protection of Islamic manuscripts in Mali

Question for written answer E-005122/13 to the Commission Charles Tannock (ECR) (8 May 2013) Subject: Protection of Islamic manuscripts in Mali During the recent Islamist insurgency in Mali, the Islamic scholar Abdel Kader Haidara, with the help of German diplomats and local volunteers, managed to save over 200 000 manuscripts, 4 000 of them from Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ of scholarship, dating back