When His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, goes to the East and West cities, the United Arab Emirates and Islamic Arab Culture go with him. What a bright honourable presence, while he presents to the world, in strength and confidence, the model of the encyclopaedic intellectual person, who is well-aware of history, who rushes in his research reaching the results and conclusions thereof from the awareness of the connection of time to place, history to geography, politics, language and civilization, as being a comprehensive question summarizes this cosmic controversy, which rages through the ages, under which schools of thought, major philosophies and universities started. From the sincere and renewed awareness of the scholar, but adherent to the fundamentals of the scientific approach,
Dr. Sultan, who is characterized by his preoccupation with culture in general and with history in particular, has a real project that is well defined and interconnected despite the divergence of limbs, as it may seem to the eyes of the non- observer. The attention is drawn in the project of Sultan towards the completion of an encyclopaedia that deals with the history of the region that would match between the events of history discovering new things. Thus, in each time it presents new things and discovers.
He is not an ordinary and usual historian, but he is rather a unique person, who achieves his results through a strenuous search process and equally interesting. In London, on the sidelines of His Highness presence at the London Book Fair, His Highness signed his book "Tale of A City" in English version.
He represents the research and writing awareness in the deepest and most revealing forms. The intellectual project owner necessarily works in this way and plans for the present and the future of his researches, putting among it connection links which surprise the recipient each time, as if Dr. Sultan adheres to a standard of two wings: novelty and seriousness.
In Keywords surrounded from each point by the force of evidence, Dr. Sultan reviewed a part of the history of the region, putting for our future generations, Flares of thought and consciousness to illuminate the nights of the wanderers and enlighten the minds and hearts of those goers in the dawn of the soaring suns towards the sunrise.
Dr. Sultan said “the most enjoyable of all heard or read was talked and addressed in systematic phrases in chapters of the relationship of multiple nations and peoples in the history of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates and the region. Then, His Highness concluded this determination: our subject today is our region and the British.
This is how Dr. Sultan spoke at White Hall at the Palace of Ceremonies in the English own House. In this specified and determined subject, as it may seem at first glance on a large scale, bringing a new that has not been heard or read. Is this merely the method of the creative historian, who has the unprecedented intellectual project?
Finally, it is necessary to pay tribute and appreciation to the keenness of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, for being present in the international thought forums and for carrying the flag of Arab and Islamic culture high, as well as his personal and institutional interest in translating his outputs and other Arab outputs which worth to be translated into English and other living languages.
Source: Al Khaleej Newspaper – Ibn Al Deira