Thursday 30 October 2025 - 07:59
Iraqi calligrapher completes world's largest handwritten Quran

A former Iraqi goldsmith has spent six years creating what is believed to be the world’s largest handwritten Quran in Istanbul, producing a manuscript with pages measuring four metres long and 1.5 metres wide.

Hawzah News Agency- Ali Zaman, born in 1971 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, developed a passion for Islamic calligraphy from a young age.

After leaving his trade as a jeweller in 2013, he dedicated himself fully to the art.

The massive Quran, which took six years to complete, was written entirely by hand with traditional reed pens in the thuluth script—an Arabic script version of Islamic calligraphy.

Working alone in a small room at Istanbul’s Mihrimah Sultan Mosque complex, he spent each day on the manuscript, pausing only for meals and prayers.

The completed Quran surpasses the previous largest known manuscript, which measured 2.28 metres by 1.55 metres.

Source: TRT WORLD

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