Student digs up Malay texts in Egypt

Treasure trove of knowledge: Muhammad Nur Hadi looking for old indigenous texts in the book warehouse at Mustafa al-Halabi. — Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian student in Egypt has collected nearly 200 books written by Malay scholars from the 1920s to the 1960s.Muhammad Nur Hadi Sallehuddin, a final year Usuluddin student at al-Azhar University, began the collection in 2020.