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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.
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]
It burned a Quran with Kufic script that had been brought from an ancient mosque in Bosra, people used to say it was an Uthman's Quran". [56] The Quran is said to have been in the possession of the Russian czars at the Leningrad Book House for a time and then moved to England. [57]
The Quran was canonized only after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. According to Islamic tradition the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 23/644–35 AH/655 CE) established the canonical Qur'an, reportedly starting the process in 644 CE, [6] and completing the work around 650 CE (the exact date was not recorded by early Arab annalists). [7]
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]
The history of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the timeline ranging from the inception of the Quran during the lifetime of Muhammad (believed to have received the Quran through revelation between 610 and 632 CE [1]), to the emergence, transmission, and canonization of its written copies.
The chapters of the Quran, which Muslims believe was revealed during a 23-year period in Muhammad's lifetime, were written on various pieces of paper during Muhammad's era. Two decades later, these papers were assembled into one volume under the third caliph , Uthman ibn Affan , and this collection has formed the basis of all written copies of ...
The Topkapı manuscript or Topkapı Quran (Also known as Topkapı Qurʾān Manuscript H.S. 32 or Topkapı H.S. 32) [1] is an early manuscript of the Quran dated to the middle 2nd century AH (mid 8th century AD). [2] This manuscript is kept in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. It is traditionally attributed to Uthman ibn Affan (d. 656 ...