This beautiful page is from a luxurious 13^th century Qur’an, probably made for a Royal or noble patron in the Islamic Kingdom of Granada in Spain. Though parchment was the standard material for Qur’an manuscripts of this period, this one is written on vibrant peach-coloured paper. It is testament to the technological prowess of the medieval Islamic world and, like the palace of the Alhambra, a vestige of its richness and splendour before the Christian conquest.

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