When we think about the Quran - the holiest religious book for a quarter of humanity - we rarely think about it as a visually-rich text. The Quran and Islam in general, often enter the cultural imagination through auditory practices such as recitation, or even with a mind to the Islamic prohibition of pictures. But is this the whole story? Are there visual aspects to the Quranic text that scholarship has neglected so far? And if we turn our attention to these aspects, how will this shape our understanding of the Quran as a historical document that is a product of its time?
Let’s turn to Prof. David Shulman, who is interviewing Dr. Hannelies Koloska, a historian and philologist specializing in Quranic studies.
Image: Verses from surah 18 from a manuscript of a Qur’an codex (Islamic Arabic 1572), before 750. Credit: Manuscripta Coranica, published by the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften by Michael Marx, in cooperation with Salome Beridze, Sabrina Cimiotti, Hadiya Gurtmann, Laura Hinrichsen, Annemarie Jehring, Tobias J. Jocham, Tolou Khademalsharieh, Nora Reifenstein, Jens Sauer und Sophie Schmid. Betaversion: as of 30.12.2018
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