700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online | Open Culture
▻http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/persian-manuscripts-spanning-700-years-now-digitized-and-available-onli
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly the opposite. For Nowruz, the Persian New Year, the Library of Congress has released a digital collection of its rare Persian-language manuscripts, an archive spanning 700 years. This free resource opens windows on diverse religious, national, linguistic, and cultural traditions, most, but not all, Islamic, yet all different from each other in complex and striking ways.
▻https://www.loc.gov/collections/persian-language-rare-materials/about-this-collection