المتبقي من تراث ابن قِـبَـة الرازيّ - أبي جعفر محمّد بن عبد الرحمن بن قِبَـة الرازيّ - الصفحة ٣٨٢

The Arab nation wrote in pre-Islamic epoch a thing about its heritage, and increased and expanded when the light of the messenger of Allah scattered the darkness of ignorance and injustice in the neighboring nations and the Arabian Peninsula as well. Then the movement of science, development and expansion in various fields of life towards rise has begun.

Despite the abundance of heritage books that began from the age of inscription to the present day. Many of them and their accounts had lost, including lost parts due to the accidents and calamities such as floods and earthquakes that passed through our Islamic nation. They are not hidden in the authentic historical books and others as well. Any one reads the index book wrote by Ibn al-Nadeem (d. ٣٨٥ A.H.) and its contents like works and writings will note with sorrow the loss extent of our valuable books that wrote before the death of Ibn Nadeem. Exactly (٨٣٦٠) books that he enumerated in the index and (٢٢٣٨) is the number of authors.

The heritage revival centre persists earnestly to contribute to this field by taking upon itself the creation of the lost heritage series, which is concerned in collecting some of the remaining parts of the lost books from our Islamic heritage and reviewing them or adopting printing them. From the book of the city of knowledge) to Sheikh Al-Sadouk may Allah