The man in Mauritania is dedicated to protecting rare Islamic books, which are significant cultural and religious artifacts.

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‘I have to protect them’: The man guarding Mauritania’s rare Islamic books www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/27/the-man-guarding-mauritanias-rare-islamic-texts?traffic_source=rss Chinguetti was once a popular desert library town attracting scholars from the Muslim world to its precious collections.

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