Ibn al-Bawwab

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Qur'an of Ibn al-Bawwab
Qur'an of Ibn al-Bawwab
by Ibn al-Bawwab
Abbasid · 1000–1001 CE · Baghdad
The earliest surviving Qur'an in cursive naskh script — the style that would outlast the angular Kufic. Copied by one of Islam's greatest calligraphers in a single year.