Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"
1media/IMG_4261_thumb.jpeg2024-02-29T11:38:18-08:00Yonglong Renfc440ff723235fd7cabfc6a4b2163b78dcb005b7444043Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an", Calligrapher Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri 706 AH/1306–7 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Artplain2024-03-01T08:48:31-08:00Yonglong Renfc440ff723235fd7cabfc6a4b2163b78dcb005b7
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12024-02-15T12:09:05-08:00When was this object made?6plain2024-03-09T16:40:37-08:00 Yonglong (Ethan) Ren, Class of 2026, College of the Holy Cross
This page of the Qur'an was made between 850 and 1000 CE. A century or two before it was made, in 762 CE, the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad in present-day Iraq. This planned circular city was founded near the ancient cities of Babylon and Ctesiphon. Medieval Baghdad became a center of science, culture, and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam. In later centuries, Qur'ans remained extraordinarily beautiful and important, and they were made in many locations around the medieval globe. What is the connection between the date and Baghdad? The relationship between your points is not clear.
