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The Quran as Art
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Page 1: The Quran as Art. Quran as Decorative Art Qasba Mosque in MarrakechQasba Rabat Challeh edificeRabat Sultan Hasan Mosque in CairoSultan Wall art in TehranTehran.

TheQuran as

Art

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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

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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

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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