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Title page of a copy of the Holy Quran
(صفحة العنوان لنسخة من القرآن الكريم)

Title	Title page of a copy of the Holy Quran
Title Original	صفحة العنوان لنسخة من القرآن الكريم
Publication Date:	Second half of the 4th century AH / 10th century AD
Publication Place	Probably Kairouan. - Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Subject	The Qazim sheet is fake and nonsense.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الطول: 21 سم؛ العرض: 15.1 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	Rutbi 198
Record ID	object;ISL;tn;Mus01;3;ar
Library Location	Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Date	Second half of the 4th century AH / 10th century AD
Notes	The first leaf is decorated with a unique luster decoration, and consists of a rectangular field, gilded and dotted in black and red, framed by two plaited bands. The axial surface is decorated with a central circle equidistant from two semicircles. The collection is separated by half rhombuses, each of which is filled with a decoration of a simple vine leaf, with five lobes surrounded by a circle from which two halves of leaves appear, while protruding towards the margin is a palm leaf decoration with dense floral decoration. These decorative elements fall within the African (Tunisian) decorative repertoire during the Upper Middle Ages: 3rd - 5th century AH (9th century - 11th century AD). The second leaf contains a Qur’anic text. Taken from Surat Yunus (Sura No. 10, verses 70 and 71). The gilded and shiny Kufic writing is surrounded by maroon color, and red diacritical points are placed on the vowels, and two dots on top of each other for the tanween movement. I also indicate two dots, one green and one red, respectively, for the hamza and shuddah movements, according to the approach developed by the scholar Abu Al-Aswad. I also used short italics for vowel dots. On the other hand, the division between verses is indicated by a decoration in the form of a small, gilded rose surrounded by a blue circle, and the fifth verse is indicated by a rounded gilded ornament with a blue center and a red circumference. The tenth verse is highlighted in the margin with a round ornament covered with gilded corollas, and includes an inner circle decorated with a gilded epigraphic inscription on a red ground.
Sample Text	Mourad Rammah “Title page of a copy of the Holy Quran” under Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;3;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	30 ans au service du patrimoine(exhibition catalogue), 1986, p.209.Tunez, Tierra de Culturas(exhibition catalogue), Valencia, 2004, p.219.Tunisie: du christianisme a l'islam(exhibition catalogue), Lattes, 2001, p.193.Ifriqiya: Thirteen Centuries of Art and Architecture in Tunisia, pp.159–62 and 182–3.

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Title page of a copy of the Holy Quran

(صفحة العنوان لنسخة من القرآن الكريم)

Publication Date Second half of the 4th century AH / 10th century AD

Publication Place Probably Kairouan. - Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Subject The Qazim sheet is fake and nonsense.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الطول: 21 سم؛ العرض: 15.1 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID Rutbi 198

Record ID object;ISL;tn;Mus01;3;ar

Library Location Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Date Second half of the 4th century AH / 10th century AD

Notes The first leaf is decorated with a unique luster decoration, and consists of a rectangular field, gilded and dotted in black and red, framed by two plaited bands. The axial surface is decorated with a central circle equidistant from two semicircles. The collection is separated by half rhombuses, each of which is filled with a decoration of a simple vine leaf, with five lobes surrounded by a circle from which two halves of leaves appear, while protruding towards the margin is a palm leaf decoration with dense floral decoration. These decorative elements fall within the African (Tunisian) decorative repertoire during the Upper Middle Ages: 3rd - 5th century AH (9th century - 11th century AD). The second leaf contains a Qur’anic text. Taken from Surat Yunus (Sura No. 10, verses 70 and 71). The gilded and shiny Kufic writing is surrounded by maroon color, and red diacritical points are placed on the vowels, and two dots on top of each other for the tanween movement. I also indicate two dots, one green and one red, respectively, for the hamza and shuddah movements, according to the approach developed by the scholar Abu Al-Aswad. I also used short italics for vowel dots. On the other hand, the division between verses is indicated by a decoration in the form of a small, gilded rose surrounded by a blue circle, and the fifth verse is indicated by a rounded gilded ornament with a blue center and a red circumference. The tenth verse is highlighted in the margin with a round ornament covered with gilded corollas, and includes an inner circle decorated with a gilded epigraphic inscription on a red ground.

Sample Text Mourad Rammah “Title page of a copy of the Holy Quran” under Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;3;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 30 ans au service du patrimoine(exhibition catalogue), 1986, p.209.Tunez, Tierra de Culturas(exhibition catalogue), Valencia, 2004, p.219.Tunisie: du christianisme a l'islam(exhibition catalogue), Lattes, 2001, p.193.Ifriqiya: Thirteen Centuries of Art and Architecture in Tunisia, pp.159–62 and 182–3.