The Glorious Qur'an

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This Qur'an (2015.133.2) is a thick hard-backed book with a black cloth cover imprinted with gold inked letters and designs. The front cover features a calligraphic circular design at its center. Below the circle of Arabic calligraphic art are three lines of text which read: [THE HOLY QUR'AN / TEXT, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY / A. YUSUF ALI]. Enclosing the design and lines of text is a rectangular patterned border which is approximately 1.5 inches from the edge of the cover. This Qur'an stand (2015.133.3) is a brown wooden piece. The stand folds open at a central hinging point where the two panels interlock with four pairs of joints. The top section, which opens to hold the Qur'an, is curved at the edges while the bottom section has two pairs of rectangular legs cut out to stand on a flat surface.

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