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Quranic Manuscripts in Alexandria

A pictorial catalog of the Qur’an copies in both the Alexandria Municipal Library and Abūl-‘Abbās al-Mursī Mosque. It opens with an introduction to the role of mosques in the establishment of Arab Islamic civilization. It reviews comprehensively the collection of rare manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an with photos of the most exquisite and significant ones in terms of illumination and decoration. The covering photo is the opening of the Qur’an copy preserved at Abūl-‘Abbās al-Mursī Mosque with the classification number 221/79, 48 × 34 cm. It was an endowment to the Mosque by Lady Ingi, the wife of the late Muhammad Sa‘īd Pasha.
Number of pages: 62.
Publishing Year: 1996.