Ancient Arabic manuscript

This could be a recipe for tabouli for all I know, or maybe a tasty broiled pheasant - but when I look at it - I think "lost secret manuscript", " holy grail", "dead sea scrolls" - old old old - and with old comes the idea of secrecy, since no one really had books or knew how to read in the olden days, thus evoking the idea that secret societies would create and bestow such documents to worthy educated members of the elite (most probably the church) which would then be buried in the tallest tower of the well guarded library in some ancient Mosque. The pages would be coated in Arsenic so that while the reader might somehow gain access in the style of Indiana Jones, she would never again leave the hidden cavern, doomed like Cassandra to have knowledge but without the ability to share it. She would be haunted by what she read and die a slow painful death among the surrounding corpses who had foolishly ventured to gain access to this cursed manuscript.

Anyway, that's what it looks like to me.

Angela