TheQuran as

Art

Quran as Decorative Art

• Qasba Mosque in Marrakech• Rabat Challeh edifice• Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo• Wall art in Tehran • Selimiye Mosque in Edirne• Suleyman’s Mausoleum

Word as Art

• In Marrakesh • Building in Sanaa, Yemen, and the

Chahar Bagh (Four Gardens) Madrasa in Isfahan

• Bibi Khatun house in Cairo• Topkapi Palace in Istanbul

Quranic Manuscripts

• Kufic mushaf attributed to al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 728)

• 8th century Hijazi script and later Kufic mushaf with Persian translation (11th cent.)

• Mamluk era mushaf with illumination

• Modern Turkish mushaf

Your Suggestions?

Quran manuscripts online….