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The Gold Quran

I found this website interesting. It shows one of the earliest written texts of the Quran.
The Koran imaged here is written in the earliest Arabic script known as kufic, after the Iraqi town of Kufa, a major center of Islamic culture during the 8th-9th century. The text of the Koran was written entirely in gold leaf around the year 800. (more…)



