Articles
CONTENT | Issue 2
- 1. The word of Editor-in-chief
ISLAMIC ARTS MAGAZINE 02 - 2. View more
SHORT REVIEW OF SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC ARTS - 3. City with rich Islamic tradition
SARAJEVO - 4. Interview: Elvis Hajdarevic
WHILE I WORK, I FEEL FREE, AS A CHILD WHO JUST RESEARCHES - 5. Qur’anic manuscripts
QUR’AN FROM MEHMED KOSKI-PASHA MOSQUE IN MOSTAR - 6. Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (Qatar)
A NEW AWAKING OF THE ARABIC SPIRIT - 7. Interview: Vaseem Mohammed
‘FAMILIAR AND UNFAMILIAR TERRITORIES’ - 8. Book review
THE IMPERIAL CITIES OF MAROCCO - 9. Book review
THE ORIENT IN A MIRROR - 10. World’s famous mosques
SULEYMANIYE MOSQUE - 11. Interview: Julien Breton
FROM CLASSICAL TO LIGHT AND VIRTUAL CALLIGRAPHY - 12. Esse Quam Videri Project
MUSLIM SELFPORTRAIT - 13. City with a rich Islamic tradition
WHO SEES ESFAHAN AS IF HE SAW A HALF OF THE WORLD - 14. The Mosque in Slovenia
MOSQUE IN LOG UNDER MANGART - 15. Art therapy
THE THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES
Qur’anic manuscripts
QUR’AN FROM MEHMED KOSKI-PASHA MOSQUE IN MOSTAR
The recognition that this sample could respond to Mameluc making is a large size, excellently made muhakak letter, otherwise favourable when transcribing of Qur’an from Mameluc period as well as the kind of illumination in which prevails golden colour combined with ultramarine blue, gross curly ornaments and a big interwoven geometric ornaments.
One of most valuable transcriptions of Qur’an in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in Mostar, and it used to represent a part of the collection of the transcribed Qur’ans, which for his mosque, Mehmed Koski-pasha, had as Muslim religious property on its building in 1608.As far as it is known, only this Qur’an was kept from the entire collection. It can be certainly claimed, that this manuscript was not a direct order of Mehmed Koski-pasha, since it is much older transcript. Because of the illumination and the kind of calligraphy, most probably, it is Mameluc’s transcript, and the place of transcript could by Syria or Egypt.
A larger part of the manuscript is well kept, while the first pages were mostly damaged, particularly the ones with surah Fatih, where the illumination and calligraphy are well damaged.
However, a larger part of Qur’an is in good condition, even to that extent that some illuminations resemble as if they were made yesterday.
The recognition that this sample could be from Mameluc making period is a large size, excellently made muhaqaq letter, which is favourable when transcribing Qur’an from Mameluc period, as well as the type of illumination in which prevails golden colour combined with ultramarine blue, gross curvy ornaments and a big interwoven geometric ornaments.
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