The library that is considered the “highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world” — Egypt’s massive Al-Azhar Library in Cairo — “has launched a long-awaited Web site featuring digital copies of its huge and rare library. The website showcases what may be “the biggest e-projects in the Muslim world,” says Sobhy Mujahid in a Islam Online story. The $5 million digitalization project will enable “Internet users worldwide to have access to the 42,000 manuscripts and 128,000 books” in Al-Azhar’s collection, which includes works as old as 1400 years. “The Web site will be the gateway for peoples from across the globe to learn more about the Islamic heritage and civilization,” says Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayyid Tantawi. “It will also offers the possibility of getting answers to religious questions or fatwas (edicts) through e-mails.” The Islam Online report also notes the library has also “revealed plans to launch a satellite channel to counter anti-Islam onslaughts and highlight the true essence of Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance.”