Researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Quran Manuscripts Studies Blog
Egypt continues its effort to stop the sale of Arabic manuscripts of Egyptian origins, but could not prevent the sale of the extraordinary Qur’an made for the Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay. The Egyptian National Library and Archives...
As artifacts bearing a deep cultural heritage to Islam continue to fetch record prices, academics question their provenance, ownership transparency, and the greed for profit. Earlier this year, Christie’s sold one of the most exquisite Qur’an...
Written just decades after the birth of Islam, a rare fragment from a seventh-century Qur’an recently fetched almost 1 million pounds. A preserved fragment like this is a rare find, and it is believed to be from the same Qur’an as others dated...
Book Review: The Damascus Fragments: Towards a History of the Qubbat al-Khazna: Corpus of Manuscripts and Documents (eds. Arianna D’Ottone Rambach, Konrad Hirschler and Ronny Vollandt). Ergon-Verlag, 2020, 542pp. ISBN: 978-3956507557. In “The...
Researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Quran Manuscripts Studies Blog