Islamic Awareness is interested in the extant artefacts relating to Islamic origins with focus on epigraphy, manuscript studies, numismatics and archaeology.
London, United Kingdom
Joined January 2012
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Plausibly the son of the third Caliph. Very archaic palaeography and truncated in the right way. Amazing if true!
*اكتشاف مهم* من #حسمى
نقش للقائد المسلم سعيد ابن الخليفة الراشد عثمان ابن عفان رضي الله عنه ونصه:
" أنا سعيد بن عثمان بن عفان".
ولاه معاوية بن أبي سفيان على خراسان و فتح سمرقند .
وهو الذي ذكره مالك بن الريب في قصيدته:
ألم ترني بعت الضلالة بالهدى
وأصبحت في جيش ابن عفان غازيا
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Today, Mr. Ayman Hunehen and I stood before the oldest Islamic inscription of Zuhayer kept at the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. It reads: "In the name of God. I, Zuhayer, wrote at the time Umar died in the year four and twenty."
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Vibrant colours and swirling lettering , for the final week of #Ramadan explore illumination and decoration in the Library’s collection of Chinese Qurans with @BLAsia_Africa bit.ly/2GCTt7A
ALT The beginning of a late seventeenth-century Qur'an written in ṣīnī script. This volume is the third of an original thirty-volume set (BL Or.15571, f. 1v)
ALT A decorative leaf serving as a section marker (BL Or.15256/1, f. 30v)
ALT The beginning of Sūrah 36, Yasin from a nineteenth-century Qur'an with Chinese translation, formerly belonging to the presumably Muslim Admiral at Amoy (BL IO Islamic 3440, f. 13v-14r)
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/thread/ This still needs confirmation and full documentation by scientific methods, but this just might be the first pre-Islamic, Arabic inscription to be found written by a Meccan. Translation and comments to follow ... xitter.cf/mohammed93athar/status…
هنا نقش مهم وقيم جداً وأرى والله تعالى أعلم أنه نقش جاهلي
أي قبل الإسلام لأمرين :
١ - أنه ابتدأ النقش ( ببسمك اللهم ) .
٢ - اسمه عبدشمس .
قراءة للنقش :
بسمك اللهم أنا عبدشمس بن المغيرة يستغفر ربه .
وربما كان صاحب هذا النقش هو عبدشمس بن المغيرة بن عبدالله بن عمر المخزومي القرشي xitter.cf/ssaa7111/status/100277…
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Couple of updates related to texts.
1. "An Inscription Mentioning Supplication For Intercession Of Prophet Muḥammad, 80 AH / 699-700 CE": bit.ly/2kwC0VU
2. "Dated And Datable Texts Mentioning Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ From 1-100 AH / 622-719 CE": bit.ly/2LBJm6Z
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Another amazing find! In summary. This is private property! Written by the son of a companion xitter.cf/mohammed93athar/status…
#نقوش_إسلامية تنشر لأول مرة من بادية #المدينة_المنورة :
☆ كشف أثري مهم لنقشين إسلاميين مبكرين☆
النقش١
في إثبات ملكية الأرض لأبناء وحوح رضي ﷲ عنه
والنقش٢
لمحمود بن وحوح الأنصاري رضي ﷲ عنه
يسأل فيه ﷲ ﷻ المغفرة له ولثابت بن معاذ بن وحوح الأنصاري رضي ﷲ عنه
#الخط_المدني
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I blogged on our project's page about the Qur'an palimpsest recently auctioned by Christie's (it's based on something I posted on Facebook a few days ago).... coptot.manuscriptroom.com/bl…
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How accurate are the traditional medieval Muslim works on the rasm of the Quran? Shockingly accurate. All kinds of things that are almost completely forgotten and only recently rediscovered in early Quranic documents. A short thread on a report by Al-Dānī's Muqniʿ.
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This is indeed interesting! Moreover, each of the five scribes had his own approach to orthography, consonant pointing, and verse-numbering, etc. xitter.cf/phoenixnl/status/93852…
Why does the early Quran document "Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus" spell Q42:25 ʕibādi-hī as عىاذه? Perhaps because the scribe of this word was drawing upon an earlier Christian Arabic orthography. phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog…
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The historical context of Palermo Qurʾān, copied 982–983 AD. A paper by Jeremy Johns bit.ly/2AHjCUX
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Some Qur'anic fragments from Islamic Art Museum at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Provided by @mzaki8
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We're delighted to be bringing a digital exhibition of the Birmingham Qur'an to the UAE for the first time #UoBDubai birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest…
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Vikings and square kufic!!!
Viking-era burial costumes depicting the names "Allah" and "Ali" via @archaiologia_en bit.ly/2fWDEOu
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Useful table of Umayyad foundation inscriptions compiled by Markus Ritter in his recent article on Khirbat al-Minya: academia.edu/26869133/_Umayy…
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10thC coin imitating an Islamic dirham w/ cross & bird added, poss issued by Olga of Kiev: academia.edu/20315581/Where_… & britishmuseum.org/research/c…
