The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

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Companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition
First major presentation of Qur’ans in the United States.
Manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East

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Within the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire used to be in political turmoil. Officials moved valuable artistic endeavors–including thousands of sumptuous Qur’an (Koran) manuscripts and loose pages dating from the 7th to 17th century–to Istanbul to verify their safety. Penned by celebrated calligraphers and embellished by skilled illuminators and bookbinders, these manuscripts are actually housed Within the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi or TIEM) in Istanbul, established in 1914.

This story unfolds in The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition, the first major presentation of Qur’ans in the US. The book’s authors describe the formation of this one-of-a-kind collection and the history of TIEM, whose centuries-old records on patrons, calligraphers, illuminators, and provenance allow us to create “biographies” detailing the production of the Qur’ans Within the exhibition. Essays address the Qur’an as a written text–from content and organization to the elaborate calligraphy and illuminated designs that transformed the volumes into beautiful artistic endeavors. The Art of the Qur’an also includes in-depth descriptions of a few seventy works from TIEM and the Smithsonian’s Sackler and Freer Galleries. It features full-page, color images of the earliest known Qur’an folios and manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East (7th-10th century), Seljuk Iran and Anatolia (12th century), the Mongol Il-Khanid and Timurid empires and Mamluk Cairo (14th and 15th centuries), Safavid and Ottoman empires (16th and 17th centuries) in addition to quite a few mosque furnishings, such as Qur’an boxes and stands. These kinds of works have rarely, if ever, been published.
Companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition
First major presentation of Qur’ans in the US.
Manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East
Essays address the Qur’an as a written text
Color images of the earliest known Qur’an folios

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