From one of the best calligraphers of the Middle Ages: the gorgeous Quran manuscript by the famous and prolific universal artist Ibn al-Bawwab
Quran of Ibn al-Bawwab
Baghdad (Iraq) — Beginning of the 11th century

Quran of Ibn al-Bawwab
Baghdad (Iraq) — Beginning of the 11th century
This beautiful Quran is the work of one of the most prolific calligrapher/illuminators of the Middle Ages
The famous name Ibn al-Bawwab, Abu´l-Hasan Ali b. Hilal (d. ca. 1022) is associated at least 64 Quran manuscripts inter alia
However, the polymath is most famous for perfecting the style of calligraphy invented by the Persian vizier Ibn Mukla (885/6–940)
Quran of Ibn al-Bawwab
- Koran of Ibn al-Bawwab
- Der Koran des Ibn al-Bawwab
Short Description
Ibn al-Bawwab, Abu´l-Hasan Ali b. Hilal, known also under the name of Ibn al-Sitri, was a famous calligrapher of the Buwayhid period, in additon to be an illuminator, a student of the law who ran in government circles, and a a devout man who knew the Quran by heart and is said to have reproduced sixty-four copies of it. One of the most splendid of these Quran manuscripts has reproduced here in a fine art facsimile editon.
Quran of Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab, Abu´l-Hasan Ali b. Hilal, known also under the name of Ibn al-Sitri, was a famous calligrapher of the Buwayhid period who died in Baghdad in 413/1022 (this date is more probable than 423/1031). He frequented the governmental circles of the period, as he was closely attached to the vizier Fakhr al Mulk Abu Ghalib Muhammad b. Khalaf at Baghdad and was for some time in charge of the library of Buwayhid Baha´ al-Dawla at Shiraz. He was also an illuminator (at least one outstanding example of his work surviving), a devout man who knew the Quran by heart and is said to have reproduced sixty-four copies of it, and a man of letters who was well versed in the law and who wrote a treatise and a didactic poem on the art of writing. His real title to fame, however, according to the early Arab authors, was to have perfected the style of writing invented, about a century earlier, by his famous predecessor, the vizier Ibn Mukla and to have brought it to a degree of well-balanced elegance which was to be surpassed later only by the efforts of Yakut al-Musta'simi.
Codicology
- Alternative Titles
- Koran of Ibn al-Bawwab
Der Koran des Ibn al-Bawwab - Size / Format
- 564 pages / 13.7 x 11.7 cm
- Origin
- Baghdad (Iraq)
- Date
- Beginning of the 11th century
- Epochs
- Style
- Language
- Artist / School
- Ibn al-Bawwab (Ibn al-Sitri)
1 available facsimile edition(s) of „Quran of Ibn al-Bawwab“
Der Koran des Ibn al-Bawwab
- Publisher
- Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) – Graz, 1981
- Binding
- Leather with half-leather book case.
- Commentary
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1 volume (130 pages) by D. S. Rice
Languages: Arabic, English - More Information
- Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.
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