12 read was “The Book of Animals” by the renowned Abbasid prose-writer, al-Jāhiz. It was then that I realized my uncle was right when he had said that some books were not meant for children. I spent an entire week copying the titles and authors’ names of the books into a notebook I had brought specifically for this purpose. Using an ink pot and a quill, I carefully transcribed the titles of all the books in the library. Later, I managed to purchase these books from the al-Mu’ayyid Bookstore in Bahrain, fulfilling my decision to create my own private collection and obtain all those titles. On April 2, 1951, the body of the late Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi arrived to be buried in al-Jubail Cemetery.
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