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Unknown scribe · c. 9th–10th century
Licence: Public domain
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Google Arts & Culture — text-in-gold-ink-on-blue-dyed-parchment/gAHggURW-2mRug
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Unknown scribe · parchment radiocarbon-dated 568–645 CE (University of Birmingham, 2015)
Licence: Public domain
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The New York Times.
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Unknown scribe · c. late 7th – early 8th century
Licence: Public domain
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Original publication: Hand copy from Medieval or Late Antique Arabia. Immediate source: Bibliothèque nationale de France http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8...
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Unknown artist · 14th century
Licence: Public domain
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Google Arts & Culture — folio-from-a-koran-sura-56-75-77/AwHSCNzb1o0rEA
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Unknown artist · 2nd half 16th century or later
Licence: Public domain
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Google Arts & Culture — folio-from-a-koran-sura-87-1-19-sura-88-1-26-sura-89-1-7-and-part-of-8/WwFgIZFlwjhLzg
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Unknown scribe · late 11th–12th century
Licence: CC0 (terms)
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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Rigobert Bonne · 1771
Licence: Public domain
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This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 1...
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Illustrations
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Texts and data
- Qur'an text (Ḥafṣ, Uthmani script) — Tanzil Project, Tanzil Quran Text © 2007–2021 Tanzil Project, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Shown verbatim, without any change (as the Tanzil terms require); check for updates at tanzil.net/updates. Sura names, juz and page divisions from the Tanzil metadata (CC BY).
- Variant readings and word differences — Quranpedia.net qiraat dataset (dump version 2026-09-12): variant spots, the readings at each, and the transmitters for each. Word differences of Shuʿba, Qālūn, Warsh, al-Bazzī, Qunbul, al-Dūrī and al-Sūsī are derived from it and highlighted on the Tanzil text; each row cites its Quranpedia spot.
- Cross-check of variant readings — Corpus Coranicum,
quran_variantsTEI data, © Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0 (source). Used to confirm, not displayed. - Reference works for review — al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ; Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī al-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr and Ṭayyibat al-Nashr. Cited by page in reviewed entries.
- Fonts — Amiri Quran (The Amiri Project Authors) and Scheherazade New (SIL Global), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Not used — no texts, scans or fonts of the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex are used on this site.
- Translation — M. M. Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930); licence status as recorded in the site's translation records.
- Differences items — the original thequran.com research team, 2020–21.