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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]
Kufic is defined as a highly angular form of the Arabic alphabet originally used in early copies of the Quran. Sheila S. Blair suggests that "the name Kufic was introduced to Western scholarship by Jacob George Christian Adler (1756–1834)". [5] Furthermore, the Kufic script plays an important role in the development of Islamic calligraphy.
Codex Mashhad is an old codex of the Qurʾān, now mostly preserved in two manuscripts, MSS 18 and 4116, in the Āstān-i Quds Library, Mashhad, Iran. The first manuscript in 122 folios and the second in 129 folios together constitute more than 90% of the text of the Qurʾān. [1]: 293 The current codex is in two separate volumes, MSS 18 and 4116.
Since the 1980s, the Kufic script has been referred to by François Déroche as a preference, with the definition of an "ancient Abbasid script". [ 2 ] The concept of Hijazi script has been criticized by Estelle Whelan, who sees this definition as a "scientific artefact" based on the form of a single letter ( aleph ) and archaic explanations.
The most ancient of these treasures show the history of the Qur'an from the late 2nd and 3rd centuries A.H.; including the oldest two-component version of the Qur'an in Kufic script, of Ali bin Hilal, also known as Ibn Abolhasan Ali Ibn Hilal, as well as two volumes of interpretation; the Nahj al-Balagha of Sharif Razi; the Gospel in Latin; and ...
The owners of Al-Dar Al-Shamiya (Arabic: الدار الشامية) in Syria owned the rights to print the first copy of the Quran that Uthman Taha wrote for them in 1970. [ 9 ] This Mus'haf was again printed in Medina for the first time, after minor repairs to the first edition of Al-Dar Al-Shamiyya , by the Quran Review Committee , which took ...
Curiously, several pages of the manuscript have been completely or partly stripped of the golden letters. These erasures seem to go beyond correcting scribal mistakes as encountered regularly elsewhere. [9] The Blue Qur'an is one of the largest manuscripts to exist, the work measures H. 11 15/16 in. (30.4 cm), W. 15 13/16 in. (40.2 cm).