AhlulBayt News Agency: A series of old copies of the Holy Quran and Islamic works has been put on show at the Museum of Kazan in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.
They include a number of manuscript copies of the Holy Book, according to Al-Masry Al-Yawm website.
One of them is a rare copy which is so small that one needs a magnifier to read the verses.
The museum also holds historical data-x-items dating back to the reign of tsars in Russia and the First World War.
It is one of the largest cultural and historical centers in the Volga region and is located in the old district of Kazan.
The capital of Tatarstan is a major center of Muslims in Russia. It is one of the first cities in the Muslim world where the Quran was printed.
The Mus’haf Kazan is among the oldest printed copies of Islam’s Holy Book. It was printed by lithography in 1803 in two sizes.
Only a few copies of the Mus’haf have survived, one of which is kept in the Kazan Museum.
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They include a number of manuscript copies of the Holy Book, according to Al-Masry Al-Yawm website.
One of them is a rare copy which is so small that one needs a magnifier to read the verses.
The museum also holds historical data-x-items dating back to the reign of tsars in Russia and the First World War.
It is one of the largest cultural and historical centers in the Volga region and is located in the old district of Kazan.
The capital of Tatarstan is a major center of Muslims in Russia. It is one of the first cities in the Muslim world where the Quran was printed.
The Mus’haf Kazan is among the oldest printed copies of Islam’s Holy Book. It was printed by lithography in 1803 in two sizes.
Only a few copies of the Mus’haf have survived, one of which is kept in the Kazan Museum.
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