[This interview is also available in Arabic and French] Introduction In April 2018, Christie’s Auction House offered an early Quranic manuscript for sale as part of its Indian and Islamic World auction, which included oriental carpets and rugs...
By Ahmed Shaker After the discovery of a missing folio from Ṣan‘ā’ Palimpsest at the Louvre Abu Dhabi last week, it seems I was lucky enough to find more interesting stuff in this respect. As you remember, the Palimpsest has now 81 folios, preserved...
By Ahmed Shaker ‘Ṣan‘ā’ Palimpsest’, ‘DAM 01-27.1’, or ‘Codex Ṣan‘ā’’ 1’ are all designations of a well-known Qur’anic manuscript. The manuscript was discovered, amongst nearly 1000 Qur’anic fragments, at the false ceiling of the Great Mosque...
