The Samarkand Kufic Quran is a Quranic manuscript, or mushaf. It is one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts in the world, although its exact dating is uncertain. Tradition holds that the caliph
Tashkent, also known as Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3.1 million people as of July 1, 2025. It
Samarkand Kufic Quran
…Imperial Public Library in Saint Petersburg. The Bolsheviks agreed to "repatriate" the Quran to Muslim organizations successively in Ufa in 1917 and Tashkent in 1923, representing one of the earliest cases in world history of formerly colonized peoples reclaiming cultural property taken under imperial duress…