Early Qur’anic Scrolls from the Qubbat Al-Khazna: A Muslim Byzantine Production

Ort: Raum 07W04, Staatsbibliothek, Unter den Linden 8, Akademieflügel Datum: , 11:00 Arianna D’Ottone Rambach (Sapienza – University of Rome): Early Qur’anic Scrolls from the Qubbat al-khazna: A Muslim Byzantine Production This contribution aims to reconsider some early Qur’anic parchment scrolls once stored in Damascus Qubbat al-khazna and currently preserved in Istanbul – at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Their peculiar book form never received a convincing explanation. However, the production of Greek-Byzantine liturgical scrolls in Damascus up to the 4th/10th century offers a meaningful precedent that sheds light on the provenance and the origin of these scrolls. Codicological techniques, bilingual – Greek-Arabic – witnesses and oral performances are some of the elements that link the Byzantine and Islamic scrolls production in the Syrian area.