One of the most beautiful Qur’ans I have ever worked on …
The manuscript was copied in the late Abbasid period, and illuminated in Mamluk Egypt …
It was among the subjects that renewed my research thinking …
And although this Qur’an had been studied before …
when I came to study it I restored to it a vitality and a different vision …
and with it I broke a hateful phrase: “studied to death” …
Material shines through research and through differing visions …
A subject never dies: each time you study it again, and return to read and examine it anew …
