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Sacred Pages: Conversations about the Qur'an.
Museum pieces
The museums have a single reason for their existence which is to try and keep the past alive through preservation of the rare historical artefacts of all kinds. This is why museums are protected entities throughout the world.
The particular pieces in this museum display are sections of the pages of the ancient writings that were or are related to the Holy Quran. They are authentic pieces that were excavated and analyzed by various scholars in the discipline of Islam studies.
The pages displayed here are of great importance since they do not just give the history of the writing of the Holy Quran, but also the account of how this writing process had intersection with other disciplines like art. The calligraphic page is an outstanding example of the writing process of the excerpts from the Holy Quran intersecting with Art, since the writer of this particular page was a renowned calligrapher of the Ottoman Empire. It is noteworthy that calligraphy was a common and respected tradition in the Ottoman Empire during the times that it existed.
The leaf of a Quran is yet another piece that tells of great history of religion hence worth the preservation in the museum. This was a piece that wa discovered in Egypt and dated back to around 1306. This version amazingly was a version that was used in the houses of noblemen and was more of secretarial script. This then gives forth the historical possibilities that the Islam religion had enetered Egypt and the surroundings as early as the 1306. The other interesting aspect is that possibly the noblemen in Egypt by that time already value Islam as a religion.
The other interesting piece that makes a great museum artefact is the piece that is the final verse of Sura 97. The interesting aspect of this piece is not only being a page of the Quran found in Egypt, but the fact that it talks about other religions like Jews. This is more fundamental since it gives the sense that even at that time, Islam did not grow in isolation but interacted greatly with other religions.
Generally these pieces have high historical value especially in line with the development and interaction of Islam with other religions and the societies where Islam grew in the early years. m
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