Kazan Museum Hosts Exhibition on Quran Manuscripts, Persian Calligraphy

IQNA – An exhibition of manuscript replicas, including copies of the Quran, tafsir, and the Shahnameh, is being organized at the Museum of Islamic Culture in Kazan.

Organized by the Ibn Sina Foundation in collaboration with the Noor International Microfilm Center, the exhibition opened on Tuesday. 

The Noor Microfilm Center, based in New Delhi, India, will showcase a collection of high-quality reproductions of rare manuscripts.

The exhibition will feature rare Qurans dating from the 10th to the 15th centuries, as well as commentaries and translations from the library of Astan Quds Razavi in Mashhad, Iran.

Highlights include Persian literary masterpieces such as Ferdowsi’s "Shahnameh" and Nezami's "Khamsa," adorned with illustrations by the renowned painter Kamal ud-Din Behzad, a 15th-century master of Islamic miniature art.

Additionally, the exhibition will display works by Muslim poets and theologians from the Volga region, the Kazan Khanate, and the Russian Empire, along with 18th and 19th-century Tatar manuscripts from the Kazan Federal University's collection.

In a special initiative by the Ibn Sina Foundation, a section of the exhibition will be dedicated to verses from Surah Al-Shams. Pages of the Quran and commentaries focusing on this Surah will be on display, which is why the exhibition is titled “Shams of Islam.”

Source: Agencies