I’m thrilled to announce the publication of my first article on Moroccan Qur’an manuscripts in the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 16(2), 191-240.
📄 Title: À propos d’un ancien manuscrit du Coran en écriture coufique, donné à la Grande Mosquée de Malaga (On an Early Qur’anic Manuscript in Kūfī Script Given to the Great Mosque of Malaga)
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Abstract:
This paper examines the oldest Qur’anic manuscript endowed to the Great Mosque of Malaga in al-Andalus. Its leaves—some of which bear the Arabic words “endowed” (waqf) or “endowment” and “Great Mosque of Malaga” perforated in their margins—are now dispersed across Moroccan collections and occasionally appear on the art market. By reassembling its scattered folios, the study highlights the distinctive features of this copy, likely produced in al-Andalus in the 4th/10th or 5th/11th century for a prominent scholar.

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