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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Scripture and its sciences Arts of the book

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Samarkand Kufic Quran· The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)

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islam.museum contributors. “The Blue Qur'an”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/al-mushaf-al-azraq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Samarkand Kufic Quran

The great Kufic mushaf attributed to Uthman (8th–9th c.) kept in Tashkent — among the oldest Qur'ans extant, holding about half the text.