The calligraphy is on display from November 21 until December 3, 2016, at
Promenade Garden in Oman Avenues Mall and can be viewed anytime during the
opening hours of the Mall.
The collections are from Rampur Raza Library in India. Over 40 pieces of
calligraphic artwork artistically inscribed with selected verses from the Holy
Quran, have been showcased in the exhibition.
Among the rare calligraphic manuscripts exhibited are a folio from a 7th
century Holy Quran in Kufic script attributed to Imam Ali (AS), a folio from
8th century Quran in Kufic script attributed to Imam Jafar Sadiq (AS), a 16th
century Holy Quran decorated with gold on the orders of Mughal Emperor Akbar
and 12th-18th century manuscript folio written within gold floral jidwal.
The Rampur Raza Library is a treasure house of Indo Islamic learning and arts
which was set up by the Rampur State which was founded by Nawab Faizullah Khan
in 1774.
Source: Times of Oman