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Embellishing the Holy Quran
(تزويق قرآن كريم)

Title	Embellishing the Holy Quran
Title Original	تزويق قرآن كريم
Author	Imran Ibn Ahmed Ibn Imran Al-Balawi.
Publication Date:	In the year 413 AH/1022 AD
Publication Place	Very likely from Kairouan, a great centre for book production at that time. - Museum of Islamic Arts, Raqqada (Kairouan)
Subject	Qadim sheet
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	مستطيلة؛ العرض: 15سم؛ الطول: 21.5 سم؛ ورقتان، خمسة أسطر
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	Rutbi 14
Record ID	object;ISL;tn;Mus01;5;ar
Library Location	Museum of Islamic Arts, Raqqada (Kairouan)
Date	In the year 413 AH/1022 AD
Notes	The right leaf is taken from a Qur’an copied on parchment paper. It is written in black Kufic script in thick letters. The vowels are indicated with red dots according to the grammar style of Abu Al-Aswad. Other diacritical points for the letters were used as diacritic vowels. The division between verses is indicated by an ornament in the form of a large, gilded and maroon-colored rose. It is made up of six petals surrounding a circle, and connected to each other by six quarter circles of the same color. Maroon. The left leaf is decorated with an ornament whose frame consists of a rectangular band, which includes a serpentine twig decoration. Several circles with gold and maroon surrounds intertwine, forming a geometric decoration consisting of three rows of strands, of which the four-lobed flower is the dominant decorative element. Meanwhile, the surrounding surfaces were dyed green. On the left margin, he drew a wreath consisting of a circle surrounded by green and gilded dots, containing seven simplified and gilded leaves inside it, on a white background, dotted with black and green dots.
Sample Text	Mourad Rammah “Adorning the Holy Qur’an” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;5;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Mourad RAMMAHNé en 1953 à Kairouan, docteur en archéologie islamique, Mourad Rammah est le conservateur de la médina de Kairouan. Lauréat du prix Agha Khan d'architecture, il publie divers articles sur l'histoire de l'archéologie médiévale islamique en Tunisie et participe à différentes expositions sur l'architecture islamique. De 1982 à 1994, il est en charge du département de muséographie du Centre des arts et des civilisations islamiques. Mourad Rammah est également directeur du Centre des manuscrits de Kairouan.
Seçili bibliyografya	De Carthage a Kairouan(exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1982, p.258.Tunez, Tierra de Culturas(exhibition catalogue), Valencia, 2004, p.220.Ifriqiya: Thirteen Centuries of Art and Architecture in Tunisia, pp.175–6.

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Embellishing the Holy Quran

(تزويق قرآن كريم)

Author Imran Ibn Ahmed Ibn Imran Al-Balawi.

Publication Date In the year 413 AH/1022 AD

Publication Place Very likely from Kairouan, a great centre for book production at that time. - Museum of Islamic Arts, Raqqada (Kairouan)

Subject Qadim sheet

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions مستطيلة؛ العرض: 15سم؛ الطول: 21.5 سم؛ ورقتان، خمسة أسطر

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID Rutbi 14

Record ID object;ISL;tn;Mus01;5;ar

Library Location Museum of Islamic Arts, Raqqada (Kairouan)

Date In the year 413 AH/1022 AD

Notes The right leaf is taken from a Qur’an copied on parchment paper. It is written in black Kufic script in thick letters. The vowels are indicated with red dots according to the grammar style of Abu Al-Aswad. Other diacritical points for the letters were used as diacritic vowels. The division between verses is indicated by an ornament in the form of a large, gilded and maroon-colored rose. It is made up of six petals surrounding a circle, and connected to each other by six quarter circles of the same color. Maroon. The left leaf is decorated with an ornament whose frame consists of a rectangular band, which includes a serpentine twig decoration. Several circles with gold and maroon surrounds intertwine, forming a geometric decoration consisting of three rows of strands, of which the four-lobed flower is the dominant decorative element. Meanwhile, the surrounding surfaces were dyed green. On the left margin, he drew a wreath consisting of a circle surrounded by green and gilded dots, containing seven simplified and gilded leaves inside it, on a white background, dotted with black and green dots.

Sample Text Mourad Rammah “Adorning the Holy Qur’an” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;5;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Mourad RAMMAHNé en 1953 à Kairouan, docteur en archéologie islamique, Mourad Rammah est le conservateur de la médina de Kairouan. Lauréat du prix Agha Khan d'architecture, il publie divers articles sur l'histoire de l'archéologie médiévale islamique en Tunisie et participe à différentes expositions sur l'architecture islamique. De 1982 à 1994, il est en charge du département de muséographie du Centre des arts et des civilisations islamiques. Mourad Rammah est également directeur du Centre des manuscrits de Kairouan.

Seçili bibliyografya De Carthage a Kairouan(exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1982, p.258.Tunez, Tierra de Culturas(exhibition catalogue), Valencia, 2004, p.220.Ifriqiya: Thirteen Centuries of Art and Architecture in Tunisia, pp.175–6.