Rare Qur’an editions in Madinah exhibition
Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah), the King Abdul Aziz General Library in Madinah, King Saud University and King Abdul Aziz University.
Other goals include the call for learning and teaching the Qur’an; highlighting the greatness of the Qur’an; understanding the history of Qur’an, displaying the special technologies of the Qur’an; and demonstrating the efforts of the Kingdom in caring for the Qur’an.
Hamzah Abdul-Karim, the supervisor of the exhibition, told Arab News that the Qur’an exhibition contains many manuscripts and modern technologies that suit the needs of society, including manuscripts written on gazelle skin and others written by Hafez Osman, who wrote 106 manuscripts of the Qur’an and died while writing the 107th.
Another unique manuscript was written by Ghulam Mohiuddin about 200 years ago, and carried on four camels from Afghanistan to Madinah due to its heavy weight. The manuscript is one-and-a-half meters long and one meter wide, and weighs 154 kilograms. There is a translation in Persian at the bottom of each page.
Abdul-Karim said that the exhibition is held in 12 halls, and there are interpreters in many languages including English, French, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian, Pashtu and Malawian. He also noted that a large number of pilgrims visit the exhibition during Umrah and Hajj seasons, with the number of visitors reaching 10,000 daily during Hajj season. People from about 150 nations have visited the exhibition.