{
 "id": "object/mushaf-samarkand",
 "class": "object",
 "slug": "mushaf-samarkand",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مصحف سمرقند الكوفي",
  "en": "Samarkand Kufic Quran"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "المصحف الكوفي الضخم المنسوب إلى عثمان (القرن الثامن-التاسع) المحفوظ في طشقند — من أقدم المصاحف الباقية بحجم نصف القرآن.",
  "en": "The great Kufic mushaf attributed to Uthman (8th–9th c.) kept in Tashkent — among the oldest Qur'ans extant, holding about half the text."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 7499.999931552325,
  "latest": 7509.9987679418155
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "750",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "decade"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "manuscript",
  "made": {
   "edtf": "750",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "decade"
  },
  "holding_institution": "Tashkent, Uzbekistan",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q2990787"
  },
  "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 ضخم ينسبه التراث إلى [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان بن عفان]]، من القرن الثامن أو التاسع؛ محفوظ في طشقند ويحوي نحو نصف النص. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "من أقدم المصاحف الباقية بحجمه؛ أرّخته دراسات الكربون إلى القرن الثامن الميلادي. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/mushaf-samarkand",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A huge Kufic Qur'an that tradition attributes to [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|Uthman ibn Affan]], from the eighth or ninth century; kept in Tashkent and containing about half the text. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Impact",
     "markdown": "One of the oldest Qur'ans of its size that survives; studies using carbon dating have placed it in the eighth century CE. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/mushaf-samarkand",
    "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": "ایک بڑا کوفی قرآن جسے روایت [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان بن عفان]] سے منسوب کرتی ہے، آٹھویں یا نویں صدی کا؛ تاشقند میں محفوظ ہے اور تقریباً آدھا متن رکھتا ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "اپنے سائز کے اعتبار سے باقی رہنے والے قدیم ترین قرآنوں میں سے؛ کاربن تحقیق کے مطابق اس کی تاریخ آٹھویں صدی عیسوی تک جاتی ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/mushaf-samarkand",
    "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"
 }
}