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Leaf from the Blue Quran showing Sura 30: 28–32, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.. The Blue Quran (Arabic: الْمُصْحَف الْأَزْرَق, romanized: al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is an early Quranic manuscript written in Kufic script. [1]
King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an (Arabic: مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريف) is a printing plant located in Medina, Saudi Arabia that publishes the Quran in Arabic and other languages. The company produces about 10 million copies a year. It has 1,700 employees.
The Muqattaʿat (Arabic: حروف مقطعات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, 'disjoined letters, disconnected letters'; [167] also 'mysterious letters') [168] are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters figuring at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters of the Quran just after the basmala. [168]
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The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) is a two-volume translation of the Quran, authored by Pakistani Islamic scholar Taqi Usmani. Usmani served as judge of the Sharia Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In addition to the original Arabic text, the translation includes brief English explanatory notes.
Green flags were adopted by Shi'ites in the early Islamic period, [8] although the most common Shi'a color was white, in symbolic opposition to Abbasid black. [9] [10] Thus in 817, when the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun adopted the Alid Ali al-Ridha as his heir-apparent, he also changed the dynastic color from black to green.
Kufic was prevalent in manuscripts from the 7th to 10th centuries. Around the 8th century, it was the most important of several variants of Arabic scripts with its austere and fairly low vertical profile and a horizontal emphasis. [9] Until about the 11th century it was the main script used to copy the Quran. [10]