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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 763556, member: 8267"]While I don't read Arabic, I did take a class on Arabic calligraphy once. Each surah, or chapter, in the Quran starts with a phrase known as the bismillah - "in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful". If this manuscript is a Quran, I would expect the sentence in large script to be the beginning of a surah, meaning it should be the bismillah - but it is not.</p><p><img src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1742114828_10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I suspect the manuscript may be something other than a Quran.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 763556, member: 8267"]While I don't read Arabic, I did take a class on Arabic calligraphy once. Each surah, or chapter, in the Quran starts with a phrase known as the bismillah - "in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful". If this manuscript is a Quran, I would expect the sentence in large script to be the beginning of a surah, meaning it should be the bismillah - but it is not. [IMG]https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1742114828_10.jpg[/IMG] I suspect the manuscript may be something other than a Quran.[/QUOTE]
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