Image Resource Bank

Image Gallery |  6 of 15

This is a picture of a page from the Qur’an in the Kufi script. According to Islamic tradition, the Qur’an contains the revelations of God through the Prophet Mohammad. The Qur’an has 114 chapters and was collected and canonized in the mid-seventh century CE by the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan.

 The Great Mosque of Samarra

Name: Abbasid Qur’an Folio, 9th–10th century

Material: Ink and color on parchment

Size:
Length: 29.7 cm (11.7 in)       
Width: 22.5 cm (8.86 in)

Date: 9th–10th century CE

Place of Origin: Egypt

Location: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.

Source and Registration#:
Wikimedia Commons
(accessed April 30, 2010).

Wadad Kadi

Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies, Emerita, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago