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Qur'an Manuscript Folio (recto)
800s–900s
- Medium
- ink, gold, and color on parchment
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.4 x 26 cm (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.); Text area: 12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq or Iran, Abbasid period, 9th–10th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This page features the last eight verses of the Sura al-Sad (named for the Arabic letter sad) and the opening verses of the Sura al-Zumar (the Companies). The latter begins: The sending down of the Book is from God the All-mighty, the All-wise. We have sent down to thee the Book with the truth; so worship God, making thy religion His sincerely.
