In the National Library of Poland in Warsaw, participants of the Congress could familiarize themselves with treasures illustrating the extraordinary and surprising connections between Poland-Lithuania and the Muslim East, such as the legendary work of Wacław Emir Rzewuski on Arabian horse breeds Sur les chevaux orientaux et provenants des races orientales, a magnificent atlas of the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 18th century Carte de la Pologne divisée par provinces et palatinats et subdivisée par district construite d’après d’arpentages by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni (1772) showing the borderlands of the Kingdom of Poland bordering Crimea, which feature bilingual place names, and finally the Ottoman genealogy of kings and prophets (Silsile-name), which 300 years ago served Isaac Newton in his comparative research on the common traditions of Christianity and Islam.
