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In time
Scripture and its sciencesArts of the book
Overview
A huge Kufic Qur'an that tradition attributes to Uthman ibn Affan, from the eighth or ninth century; kept in Tashkent and containing about half the text. 1
Impact
One of the oldest Qur'ans of its size that survives; studies using carbon dating have placed it in the eighth century CE. 1
People and things also explored
The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· Arabesque· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an
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islam.museum contributors. “Samarkand Kufic Quran”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/mushaf-samarkand/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.