Tunisia Museum Puts Rare Quran Copy on Display

Rasa - A rare copy of the Holy Quran dating back to the early years after the advent of Islam has been put on display in Tunisia.

News ID: 422718

Date: 15 August 2016 - 23:16

RNA - The manuscript copy is on show at the Bardo National Museum in the North African country’s capital of Tunis, according to omcomanddaily website.

It is a parchment on which verses of the Quran are written in Kufic script in blue ink.

Kufic script is the earliest extant Islamic style of handwritten alphabet that was used by early Muslims to record the Quran.

The copy is said to date back to the second century in the Islamic Hijri calendar (8th century CE).

It has been discovered in the Tunisian city of Kairouan, a city founded in the first Hijri century by the Umayyads.

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