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  2. List of translations of the Quran - Wikipedia

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    Salman the Persian (7th century) (partial translation) Qur'an Quds, translator unknown – (before the 10th century) A translation in 556 AH; Saiyad Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir Simnani (1308–1405 CE), Original Manuscript at Mukhtar Ashraf Library in Kichoucha Shareef (U.P.) Shah Waliullah (1703–1762)

  3. Birmingham Quran manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The Basmala as written on the Birmingham muṣḥaf manuscript, the oldest surviving copy of the Qur'an. Rasm: "ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحىم". The Mingana Collection, comprising over 3,000 documents, was collected by Alphonse Mingana over three trips to the Middle East in the 1920s [3] and was funded by Edward Cadbury, a philanthropist and businessman of the Birmingham-based ...

  4. Early Quranic manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The Ma'il Quran is an 8th-century Quran (between 700 and 799 CE) originating from the Arabian peninsula. It contains two-thirds of the Qur'ān text and is one of the oldest Qur'āns in the world. It was purchased by the British Museum in 1879 from the Reverend Greville John Chester and is now kept in the British Library.

  5. Codex Mashhad - Wikipedia

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    Codex Mashhad was written on parchment in a large format (approximately 50×35 cm), in Medina or Kufa during the 7th century. It likely remained in Kufa for several decades before being transferred to the region of Khurasan, where it was held by scholars and reciters of Qurʾān in Nishapur.

  6. Quranic studies - Wikipedia

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    The Birmingham Quran manuscript, an early Quran manuscript dated to the seventh century. Quranic studies is the academic study of the Quran , the central religious text of Islam . Like in biblical studies , the field uses and applies a diverse set of disciplines and methods, such as philology , textual criticism , lexicography , codicology ...

  7. Quran translations - Wikipedia

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    The first translation of the Qur'an was performed by Salman the Persian, who translated Surah al-Fatiha into the Middle Persian in the early seventh century. [7] According to Islamic tradition contained in the hadith , the Negus of the Ethiopian Empire and the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius received letters from Muhammad containing verses from the ...

  8. Samarkand Kufic Quran - Wikipedia

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    The Samarkand Kufic Quran (also known as the Mushaf Uthmani, Samarkand codex, Tashkent Quran and Uthman Qur'an) is a manuscript Quran, or mushaf, and is one of the 6 manuscripts which were penned under the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan. They represented an effort to compile the Qur'an into a standardized version.

  9. Islamic manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Blue Qu'ran, 9–10th century manuscript. A common religious manuscript would be a copy of the Qur'an, which is the sacred book of Islam.The Qur'an is believed by Muslims to be a divine revelation (the word of god) to Muhammad, revealed to him by Archangel Gabriel. [5]