Ahlul Bayt News Agency, According to samanyoluhaber, the exhibition which will be underway till December 1 was inaugurated in Sultan Ahmad Square, Istanbul with the presence of Ali Bardaak Ughlu, head of Turkey’s Theology Organization; Ertuğrul Günay, Turkish minister of Culture and Tourism; Mustafa Çağrıcı, Istanbul’s mufti; Sophie Makariou, head of the Islamic Arts Section in Louvre Museum in France; Venetia Porter, deputy of the Islamic Section in British National Museum; Filiz Çakır, a researcher in the Islamic Arts Section in Germany’s Berlin Museum, as well as some 250 Muslim scholars and experts.
An outstanding section of the exhibition is showcasing some rare pieces of a 250,000-page document about Damascus which includes a huge collection of handwritten sheets of the holy Quran.
The collection which has been often considered as belonging to the Museum of Turkish-Islamic Arts is now on public display for the first time.
The Quranic sheets are believed to be the oldest handwritten Quran manuscripts ever discovered which date back to the 9th century Hijri (16 century AD). Some parts of the collection are being showcased for the first time at the exhibition.
Other artistic works which are on public display include over 1500 calligraphic works and Quranic illustrations along with the Islamic works dating back to the Ottoman Era, as well as a copy of the holy Quran ascribed to Imam Ali (AS).
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