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The copy of the Quran is traditionally considered to be one of a group commissioned by the third caliph Uthman. According to Islamic tradition, in 651, 19 years after the death of the Islamic Prophet, Muhammad, Uthman commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of the Quran (see Origin and development of the Quran). [3]
The Samarkand Kufic Quran, preserved at Tashkent, is a Kufic manuscript, in Uzbek tradition identified as one of Uthman's manuscripts, but dated to the 8th or 9th century by both paleographic studies and carbon-dating of the parchment, [43] [44] which showed a 95.4% probability of a date between 795 and 855. [44]
Historians have suggested two ways in which the Quran arrived in Samarkand. That the Quran arrived in Samarkand during the rule of the Golden Horde (621 AH-907 AH) and that it was a gift from the Mamluk Sultan Rukn al-Din Baybars, who had married the daughter of Berke Khan, the Khan of the Golden Horde.
In addition to the buildings, the Hazrati Imam complex has a library of oriental manuscripts and the Caliph Usman Quran or the Samarkand Kufic Quran. The Quran has 353 parchment sheets. The Qur'ān was first kept in Medina, then in Damascus and Baghdad. The Quran was brought from Baghdad to Samarkand by Amir Temur in the 14th century. [6]
For example, sources based on some archaeological data give the construction date of Masjid al-Haram, an architectural work mentioned 16 times in the Quran, as 78 AH [13] an additional finding that sheds light on the evolutionary history of the Quranic texts mentioned, [12] which is known to continue even during the time of Hajjaj, [14] [15] in ...
The Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ al-kūfī) is a style of Arabic script, that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts.
1981, English, Al Qur'aan, by As Sayyid Imam Isa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, founder of the Ansaaru Allah Community of the West. 1985, English, Noble Qur'an, by Muhammad Muhsin Khan. 1985, English, The Qur'an: First American Version, by T. B. Irving. 1986, Polish Koran by Józef Bielawski. 1987, Kurdish Nami Tafsir by Abdul Karim Mudarris.
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 ...