Qur'an manuscripts

The Smithsonian Institution is pleased to announce a new Open Access publication: 

Submitted by Barry Flood:

New York University, Silsila: Center for Material Histories

THE QUR'AN IN PRACTICE
Anouk Cohen, CNRS Paris

The symposium, organized in the framework of the Arab Manuscript Day (Alesco), will gather a number of international experts dealing with the traditions of the production of Qur’anic manuscripts over 14 centuries, covering a vast geographical area. Our journey will start in the Arabian Peninsula and will continue through the kingdoms of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, up to the lands of China and the Malay world. Focusing on the periphery of the Islamic World, we aim to contribute to an exciting but less-researched and less popular theme.

In conjunction with The Art of the Qur’an exhibition, Freer and Sackler is organizing a symposium, The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts, on December 1, 2 and 3, 2016 in Washington, DC.

In conjunction with The Art of the Qur’an exhibition, Freer and Sackler is organizing a symposium, The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts, on December 1, 2 and 3, 2016 in Washington, DC.

Dear Colleagues,