File:Folio of the Qur'an in Kufic.jpg

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Ibn al-Bawwab  (–1022)  wikidata:Q3133618
 
Ibn al-Bawwab
Alternative names
Abu al-Hasan Aala ad-Din Ali b. Hilal
Description Iraqi illuminator and calligrapher
only extant work: a Koran kept in the Chester Beatty Library
Date of birth/death 10th century
date QS:P,+950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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from 1022 until 1032
date QS:P,+1050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1022-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1032-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death Baghdad Edit this at Wikidata Baghdad Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q3133618
(traditionally attributed)
Description
English: Folio of the Qur'an in the Iranian Kufic script, traditionally attributed to Ibn al-Bawwab. Dated 392 AH/1002 CE. Library of Mar‘ashi Najafi in Qom, No. 4358
Date 1002
date QS:P571,+1002-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer https://www.reed.edu/persian-calligraphy/en/ebn-bavvab/1/index.html

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Folio of the Qur'an in Kufic, traditionally attributed to Ibn al-Bawwab. Dated 392 AH/1002 CE. Library of Mar‘ashi Najafi in Qom, No. 4358

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