page_title: Samarkand Kufic Quran
section_title: Current state
hierarchical_section_title: Samarkand Kufic Quran / Current state
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Koran aus dem 9. Jahrhundert. Angeblich handelt es sich um ein Exemplar der Edition des dritten Kalifen Uthman, was jedoch von einigen Experten bezweifelt wird (siehe de:Geschichte des Korantexts). Aufbewahrungsort ist die kleine Telyashayakh-Moschee in de:Taschkent, diese befindet sich in der Altstadt gegenüber der de:Madrasa Barak Khan, dem Sitz der Verwaltung der Muslime Usbekistans. English: A qur'an from the 9th century. It is an alleged 7th century original of the edition of the third caliph Uthman (see en:Uthman Qur'an) but this is disputed since it is written in kufic. The qur'an is located in the small Telyashayakh mosque in en:Tashkent. Edit by Wikipeder: Hue and distortion fixed, cropped.
context_page_description: The Samarkand Kufic Quran is an 8th or 9th century manuscript Quran written in the territory of modern Iraq in the Kufic script. Today it is kept in the Hast Imam library, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
  It is said to have belonged to the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan.
context_section_description: The parchment manuscript now is held in the library of the Telyashayakh Mosque, in the old "Hast-Imam" (Khazrati Imom) area of Tashkent, close to the grave of Kaffal Shashi, a 10th-century  Islamic scholar.
  A folio containing a page from the sura Al-Anbiya is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, US.
  The manuscript is incomplete: it begins in the middle of verse 7 of the second sura and ends at Surah 43:10. The manuscript has between eight and twelve lines to the page and, showing its antiquity, the text is devoid of vocalisation.
caption: The Samarkand manuscript, now kept in Tashkent
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