Location relative to Al-Aqsa
The library is located in the Islamic Quarter, in the west of the Bab Al-Silasila road, and converted to a distance of about 100 meters away, to the west of Dar Al-Quran Al-Islamiyya, and across the Tazia Cemetery.
Reason for the name
Named after Al-Khalidi family who own it.
Builder
Al-Haj Ragheb Al - Khalidi.
This building preserved in the building, where it dispersed in the house, surrounded by curved frames.
Establishment of the library
Al-Haji Ragheb Al-Khalidi established the Khalidiya library as an Islamic stand, with a sum of money recommended by his grandmother Khadija Khalidi, the daughter of Musa Effendi al-Khalidi, who was the judge of the Anatolian army in 1832.
The Library based on knowledge and scientific knowledge of the Khalidi family’s manuscripts and books collected from successive generations by Muhammad Sann Allah. Muhammad Ali. Yusuf Diaa Pasha. Sheikh Musa Shafiq, Rawhi Beik and many others.
The library intended to be public and benefit including all of its pioneers and strengthen their knowledge, and encourage interest in the mothers of books in Islamic sciences and in modern topics.
The library is an architectural model representing Jerusalem in the middle Ages.
The building dates back to the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Crusader period in the 13th century, it unknown later, three al-Qaeda fighters buried in the Al-Khwarizmi Corps that defeated the Crusaders in Palestine.
These three are the father and two sons, and the father’s name is Bareket Khan (hence, the building in the Mamluk era was called “the soil of the pool of Khan”).
There is an assumption that Prakt Khan is the son of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars, who married the daughter of one of the Khwarizm leaders.
Library Reality
In 1952, after the death of the first library official, the library deteriorated and closed.
After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1967, there was a great effort by the Al Rab Shlomo Gurin to acquire the site, but in 1992, because of the insistence of orientalist Amnon Cohen and archaeologist Dan Baht, the building rebuilt and reopened as a library in 1995.
The library has 1,278 manuscripts dating back to the Mameluke and Ottoman periods, as well as 5,000 printed books, it deals with topics of history, geography, astronomy, the Koran, philosophy and poetry.
The vast majority written in Arabic, 18 in Persian, 46 in Turkish, and the oldest manuscript in the library deals with the Maliki law and goes back to the century
Eleventh, the library has a relatively large number of original manuscripts written by the author himself, not by the scribes, there are also decorated books, which given as gifts, among them a gift given to Saladin, there are also books in thirteenth-century Indian medicine, 16th century and more.
History
In 1899 AD (1318 AH).