{
 "id": "object/al-mushaf-al-azraq",
 "class": "object",
 "slug": "al-mushaf-al-azraq",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المصحف الأزرق",
  "en": "The Blue Qur'an"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مخطوط قرآني كوفي بالذهب على رق أزرق من القرن التاسع-العاشر — أجمل مصحف أندلسي-مغربي معروف؛ مقطع في متاحف عدة.",
  "en": "A 9th–10th-century Kufic Qur'an in gold on indigo-blue vellum — the most beautiful known Andalusi-Maghrebi mushaf, dispersed across museums."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 850.0016427442042,
  "latest": 951.0002943249716
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0850/0950",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "decade"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "manuscript",
  "made": {
   "edtf": "0850/0950",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "decade"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q2997010"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مصحف كوفي مذهّب على رق أزرق نيلي من القرن التاسع أو العاشر الميلادي، غالبًا من المغرب أو الأندلس؛ نثر مخطوطه بين المتاحف بعد تفريقه. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "يُعدّ أجمل مصحف معروف من الغرب الإسلامي؛ استخدام الرق الأزرق فريد في المخطوطات الإسلامية كلها تقريبًا. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/al-mushaf-al-azraq",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A gilded Kufic Qur'an on indigo-blue parchment, from the ninth or tenth century CE, probably from Morocco or al-Andalus; its leaves were scattered among the museums after it was separated. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Impact",
     "markdown": "It is regarded as the most beautiful known Qur'an from the Islamic West; the use of blue parchment is almost unique among all Islamic manuscripts. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/al-mushaf-al-azraq",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نیلے رنگ کے چمڑے پر سنہری کوفی خط میں مصحف، نویں یا دسویں صدی عیسوی، غالباً مغرب یا اندلس سے؛ جدا ہونے کے بعد اس کے اوراق مختلف میوزیمز میں بکھر گئے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "یہ اسلامی مغرب کا معروف ترین خوبصورت مصحف ہے؛ نیلے چمڑے کا استعمال تقریباً تمام اسلامی مخطوطات میں منفرد ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/al-mushaf-al-azraq",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/arabesque",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}