Mushaf Usman, Hast Imam library, Tashkent Alhumdulillah, was fortunate to see what is believed to be one of the five copies of the Quran compiled under the leadership of Uthman RA and this particular one belonging to him. The stains in the middle are believed to be the stains of his sacred blood that spilled on the Quran when he was martyred while reading it. This is how it reached Tashkent: After Othmans death it is believed it was taken by Caliph Ali to Kufa, in modern Iraq. Seven hundred years later, when the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane, laid waste to the region, he found the Koran and took it home to grace his splendid capital, Samarkand. It stayed there for more than four centuries, until the Russians conquered Samarkand in the 1868. The Russian governor then sent the Othman Koran to St Petersburg where it was kept in the Imperial Library. But after the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin was anxious to win over the Muslims of Russia and Central Asia. Initially he sent the Koran to Ufa in modern Bashkortostan. But finally, after repeated appeals from the Muslims of Tashkent, it was returned once more to Central Asia in 1924. It has remained in Tashkent ever since. The manuscript is incomplete: it begins in the middle of verse 7 of the second sura and ends at Surah 43:10. The manuscript has between eight and twelve lines to the page and, showing its antiquity, the text is devoid of vocalisation.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:16:44 +0000
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