Codicology of Qur’ānic Manuscripts (20): The Qur’ān of Amiratī bint Abī al-‘Abbās al-Ḥamrā'ī: Tracing the Lost Endowments of Astan-e Quds Razavi from Kariz to Karbala and Paris
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10.22081/jap.2024.76132
Abstract
Endowing Qurans by Shia and Sunni women in ancient Islamic centuries was a common practice, and numerous examples of these can be found in the library of Astan-e Quds Razavi. Amiratī bint Abī al-‘Abbās al-Ḥamrā'ī, likely a Shia woman from the 5th century AH, endowed a thirty-fragment Quran in Iranian Kufic script to the shrine of Imam Reza (AS). This article provides a historical overview of this manuscript and its endower, describes its textual and artistic features, and demonstrates that fragments of this endowment have dispersed over time, now found in the National Library of France (Arabe 7263), the shrine of Imam Hussein (AS), and the Central Library of Tehran University (4631), or have been sold in various European auctions.
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