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Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran

Title	Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran
Author	Iran
Publication Date:	1578-1579 (986H)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	72 mm x 6725 mm (height x length)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is 1623
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	1578-1579 (986H)
Notes	Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran. Measuring over 6.7m in length, this paper scroll contains the entire text of the Qur'ān, written in a tiny script known as "ghubar" (dust). Also included - reserved against the tiny ghubar text - is a series of important prayers and invocations, addressed to the Prophet and his descendants through his daughter Fāṭima and her husband `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Together, they head a family line of altogether Twelve Imāms, who are of deep spiritual significance in Shi`a Islamic tradition. For this Qur'ān scroll, the special praise for the Twelve Imams fits with the cultural environment of Safavid Iran, which from 1501 was a Twelver Shi`a state. Scroll, ink, gold and colours on paper, Arabic text in ghubar script, with illuminated heading, the full text of the Qur'ān, with additional pious texts reserved against main text (the bismillāh, invocations to the Prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imāms (the Fourteen Innocents, or Chahārdah Ma`ṣūm), the prayer Nād-e `Alīyan, and the name of Imām `Alī), signed Muẓaffar ibn `Abdullāh al-Ḥasanī al-Māzandarānī, possibly Shiraz, Iran, dated 986H, 1578-1579.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Scroll (object name), Qur'an
Yazı Tipi	Ghubar script

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Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran

Author Iran

Publication Date 1578-1579 (986H)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 72 mm x 6725 mm (height x length)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is 1623

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 1578-1579 (986H)

Notes Qur'an scroll from Safavid Iran. Measuring over 6.7m in length, this paper scroll contains the entire text of the Qur'ān, written in a tiny script known as "ghubar" (dust). Also included - reserved against the tiny ghubar text - is a series of important prayers and invocations, addressed to the Prophet and his descendants through his daughter Fāṭima and her husband `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Together, they head a family line of altogether Twelve Imāms, who are of deep spiritual significance in Shi`a Islamic tradition. For this Qur'ān scroll, the special praise for the Twelve Imams fits with the cultural environment of Safavid Iran, which from 1501 was a Twelver Shi`a state. Scroll, ink, gold and colours on paper, Arabic text in ghubar script, with illuminated heading, the full text of the Qur'ān, with additional pious texts reserved against main text (the bismillāh, invocations to the Prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imāms (the Fourteen Innocents, or Chahārdah Ma`ṣūm), the prayer Nād-e `Alīyan, and the name of Imām `Alī), signed Muẓaffar ibn `Abdullāh al-Ḥasanī al-Māzandarānī, possibly Shiraz, Iran, dated 986H, 1578-1579.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Scroll (object name), Qur'an

Yazı Tipi Ghubar script