The day I was honored to behold and read in the Qur'an attributed to the Rightly-Guided Caliph ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan, may God be pleased with him.
The day I was honored to behold and to read in the Qur’an attributed to my master, the Rightly-Guided Caliph ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan — may God be pleased with him and grant him His pleasure.
O God, unite us with him, and with my master and lord Muhammad (peace be upon him), in Paradise — O Lord of the Worlds.
The Mamluk manuscript and its various arts played an important role in shaping the Arab-Islamic book, and greatly influenced the output of non-Muslims who lived under the Islamic state.
Continue readingThe most monumental, magnificent, and resplendent — the Qur'an of Sultan al-Ghuri. The Mamluk Qur'ans remain a living testament to the brilliance of the Mamluk school of Arabic calligraphy in Egypt.
Continue readingOne of the most beautiful Qur'ans I have worked on — copied in the late Abbasid period and illuminated in Mamluk Egypt, a manuscript that renewed my research thinking.
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