Islamic Manuscripts
Calligraphy as the highest art form. Kufic and naskh, the Qur'an as an object, Persian and Mughal painting, the paper mills of Baghdad, the translation movement in the House of Wisdom, and the manuscript libraries of Fez, Cairo and Timbuktu.
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48 moments in this segment.
- - Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso), view 2. Qur'an Manuscript Folio. Iran or Iraq, Abbasid period, 800s, 900s. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s, 900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Qur'an Manuscript Folio: a second folio. Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso). Iran or Iraq, Abbasid period, 9th, 10th century. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s, 900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Qur'an Manuscript Folio (recto); left side of bifolio. 9th century. gold, ink and colors on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Qur'an Manuscript Folio. 9th century. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s-900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Folio from a Qur'an. (1037–1194). ink, gold, and colors on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Double-Sided Leaf from a Qur'an. 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Page from a Qur'an, Sura al-Nisa 4, verses 159–60. 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Moroccan Qur'an Manuscript, c. 1300 04. Qur'an Manuscript from Morocco/al-Andalus, c. 1300 held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Title:Section from a Qur'an Manuscript Date:ca. 1300 Geography:Attributed to Morocco or Southern Spain Medium:Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on parchment Dimensions:7 15/16 x 7 9/16 in. (20.2 x 19.2 cm) Classification:Codices Credit Line:Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2004 Accession Number:2004.90 htt
- - An album page with a portrait of a Zand kneeling maiden, Iran, late 18th - early 19th century. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture.
- - Hamse-i Nevâî. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture.
- - "Shaikh San'an beneath the Window of the Christian Maiden", Folio18r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Bi. Folio from an illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, ca. 1600.
- - Muhammad Abu al-Su'ud (Abu Su'ud Efendi) (d. 1574); Du'anama (Book of Prayers) signed Muhammad Amin al-Husayni. MUHAMMAD ABU AL-SU'UD (ABU SU'UD EFENDI) (D. 1574 AD): DU'ANAMA (BOOK OF PRAYERS) SIGNED MUHAMMAD AMIN AL-HUSAYNI AL-TIRMIDHI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1008/1599-1600 AD An early copy of this prayer book composed by Sultan Sulayman's Grand Mufti, Ottoman manuscript on paper, 39ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant nasta'liq script, some words picked out in red, text within thick
- - Folio Quran Maghrebi script Mamma Haidara Library 34119. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic.
- - The Adoration of the Magi, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier. 1602–4. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Gurdiyah gives Khusraw an equestrian cat (Shahnameh manuscript, c. 1648). A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture.
- - Mughal painting in Jain Museum Madhuban. A Mughal manuscript painting from the Indian subcontinent.
- - Elephant Combat - Mughal Painting, 19th Century. A Mughal manuscript painting from the Indian subcontinent.
- - Reproducing an 18th-century Arabic manuscript binding. A Qatar Digital Library film following, step by step, the making of a copy of an 18th-century Islamic binding.
- - The Birmingham Quran and what it means for the text's transmission. Al Jazeera report on the manuscript and the debate among scholars about how early the Quranic text was fixed in writing.
- - The Birmingham Quran leaves, radiocarbon-dated to Muhammad's lifetime. BBC report on two parchment leaves in the University of Birmingham's Mingana Collection, radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE, placing them among the earliest surviving Quranic manuscripts.
- - Birmingham's Qur'an folios among the world's oldest. Radiocarbon dating places the parchment of a Qur'an manuscript at Birmingham among the earliest known.
- - Mughal painting between Persia and Europe. A Getty Research Institute lecture on how Mughal atelier painters absorbed Persian models and European prints into the illustrated book.
- - A thousand years of the Persian book. A Library of Congress curator's tour through Persian manuscript and printed book traditions across a millennium.
- - Sixty-eight Qurans at the Smithsonian. News report on The Art of the Quran, the first major US exhibition of Quranic manuscripts, with loans from Istanbul including copies made for sultans and shahs.
- - Inside the Smithsonian's Quran exhibition. PBS report from the Sackler Gallery on the calligraphy, binding and illumination of the finest surviving Quranic manuscripts.
- - The lost archive of a medieval Islamic empire. Historian Marina Rustow on finding Fatimid state documents recycled as scrap inside Geniza fragments.
- - The Ruzbihan Quran of 16th-century Shiraz. Curator Elaine Wright on a Shiraz masterpiece in the Chester Beatty Library, a Quran whose illumination is among the most elaborate ever produced.
- - Printing the Qur'an in the sixteenth century. A Cornell lecture on the earliest European attempts to print the Qur'an and how they were received.
- - Making a Mughal album folio. A Harvard Art Museums lecture reconstructing, layer by layer, how a Mughal album page was assembled from painting, calligraphy and margin decoration.
- - Colour in Mughal manuscript painting. The Getty examines the pigments and fine brushwork of 17th-century Mughal court portraits and how the paintings travelled to Europe.
- - The Islamic Golden Age and the House of Wisdom. Invicta documentary on Abbasid Baghdad as a centre of translation, copying and scholarship.
- - Islamic miniature paintings at the John Rylands Library. A curator's tour of Islamic manuscript painting and Qur'ans in Manchester's John Rylands collection.
- - How to look at Persian painting. Art historian Sussan Babaie explains the visual conventions of Persian manuscript illustration.
- - Bibliotheca Arabica: mapping the Arabic manuscript tradition. Scholars present a database attempting to describe the Arabic manuscript tradition as a whole rather than title by title.
- - Hidden treasures of the Persian collections. The Bodleian shows lesser-known Persian manuscripts from its collections.
- - Darimi bookstore. This is the library for men inside Dārimī Bookstore & Islamic Centre. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
- - The Vatican Library, from the House of Wisdom to digitisation. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana exhibition tracing manuscript transmission from Baghdad's Bayt al-Hikma to its own digitisation programme, with a document leaving the Vatican for the first time.
- - The Shahnameh, Persia's book of kings. BBC documentary segment on Ferdowsi's 10th-century epic of some 50,000 couplets, and its life as both a recited performance and one of the most lavishly illustrated manuscript traditions in the world.
- - Architecture inside Persian painting. Chester Beatty curators deconstruct how Persian manuscript painters rendered buildings and space on the page.
- - The Baghdad House of Wisdom. Overly Sarcastic Productions on the Abbasid translation movement that carried Greek learning into Arabic.
- - Naskh types from Europe, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Borna Izadpanah on how Arabic-script naskh typefaces were cut in different centres and reached 19th-century Iran.
- - The Ottoman transition from scribal to print culture. Historian Orlin Sabev on how and why manuscript copying persisted in the Ottoman Empire long after print was available.
- - Preserving Islamic manuscripts in Qatar. A BBC Arabic segment inside Qatar National Library's conservation programme for Islamic manuscripts, combining scientific and traditional methods.
- - The Great Mongol Shahnama, reassembled. Smithsonian curators on an early 14th-century Persian manuscript whose surviving pages were split between collections in the 20th century, brought together for exhibition.
- - ইসলামী বইমেলা ২০২৪-৭. বায়তুল মুকাররম ইসলামী বইমেলা ২০২৪ এর বিভিন্ন স্পটের ছবি। উক্ত ছবি গুলো শিল্পী আতিক তাশরীফ এর মোবাইলে ধারণকৃত। আর সেগুলো আমাকে দিয়েছেন তিনি।
- - The Muteferrika press, 1727-1747. A detailed study of the first Ottoman Turkish printing house and the typographic decisions behind its books.
- - Codex Mashhad, an early Qur'an manuscript. A specialist introduces Codex Mashhad, one of the most complete surviving Qur'an manuscripts from the first Islamic century.
- - Ibrahim Muteferrika brings printing to the Ottoman Empire. On the Hungarian-born convert who established Ottoman Turkish printing in the 1720s.