Cleveland Museum of Art

Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso)

Date

1200s–1300s

Medium

ink, gold, and color on parchment

Culture

Southern Spain

Department

Islamic Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This page from the “Chapter of Light” (24:59–61) in the Qur'an is written in the monumental script of Islamic Spain and North Africa, known as Maghribi Kufic. Words flow rhythmically with curving flourishes toward the left margin where letters end in almost perfect semicircles, an elegant hallmark that contrasts with the upright shafts. Distinctive markings—vowels in red and diacritics in blue—identify the vocalization of the text, which would have been read or recited aloud to an assembly.

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