The Quran as Art
The Quran as Art. Quran as Decorative Art Qasba Mosque in MarrakechQasba Rabat Challeh edificeRabat Sultan Hasan Mosque in CairoSultan Wall art in TehranTehran.
Dec 21, 2015
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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
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