Manuscripts and Inscriptions A complete listing of all Surahs of the Qur'an
18th Century
Surah Yunus,10. Pages from an 18th century African Qur,an, most likely from Ethiopia, written in a local style. The pages show the beginning of Surah ...read more
18th Century
Surah Yunas,10:106. Surah Hud,11. Loose manuscript leaves from an early 18th century Qur'an. Written on hand made paper, in hausawi-sudani style scrip...read more
18th Century
Surah Yunus, 10:23. Unique manuscript leaf from an early 18th century African Qur'an. Written on fine hand-made paper, in an unusual hausawi-sudani va...read more
13th century AD
End of Surah Yunus and start of Surah Hud. This page in vigorous Maghribi hand, is from a Qur'an probably copied in the 13th century in the Muslim Kin...read more
1st Century Hijrah (7th Century CE)
Surah Yunus 10:87 onward. The Topkapi manuscript, which is generally attributed to Caliph Uthman, is preserved at the Sacred Relics Section at the Top...read more
Late 8th century AD
Surah Yunus 17-27. The text is written in a characteristically rather thick, early Abbasid hand, specimens of which are represented in the historic co...read more
1st century / 2nd century of Hijrah
Surah Yunus, verses 13-20. The earliest photograph of this manuscript appeared in Bergstrasser and Pretzl's Die Geschichte Des Qorantexts in 1936. How...read more