KATTALANGAR QURAN

Description

In 2018, the project “Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections” created a facsimile of the Kattalangar Quran from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As part of humanitarian actions, more than 100 copies of the manuscript were distributed free of charge to libraries and museums around the world, including the Koran was presented to the King of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

According to experts, the total volume of the Kattalangar Quran could be 206 pages. To date, only 97 pages have been preserved, or about half of the volume of the unique manuscript. The history of the appearance of 81 pages of the Koran in Russia is unknown and under what circumstances they were transferred to the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Subsequent studies showed that 16 pages of the manuscript are stored in Uzbekistan – in Tashkent and Bukhara. Currently, the fate of more than half the pages of the unique manuscript remains unknown.