Qusayr 'Amra
What is Qusayr 'Amra?
What is a bathhouse?
What is parchment made of?
What is animal hide?
What does the root k-t-b typically convey?
What is the idea of writing or books?
What modern-day country is Qusayr 'Amra located in?
What is Jordan?
What is papyrus paper made of?
What is a water plant called...papyrus?
What region does Hijazi (Hijazi script) come from?
What is the Hejaz region in Saudi Arabia?
What animal was used to carry water here?
What is a donkey?
What kinds of paper was the Quran written on (ones that we have current, old fragments of)?
What is parchment or papyrus?
Where does Kufic (Kufic script) come from?
What is Kufa, Iraq?
What language was the inscription within the Qusayr 'Amra?
What is Arabic?
How were papyrus and parchment used differently?
What is papyrus for business correspondence and parchment for books?
What does Mashq mean?
What is the elongation of letters?
What was the name of the patron of Qusayr 'Amra?
Who is al-Walid?
While we often use the term "Quran" in reference to the tangible text, the Quran is actually the revelation made to the Prophet (SAW). What is the word for the physical copy and pages that the Quran is written on?
What is a mus'haf?
What did really old scripts of the Quran lack, that modern-day copies of the Quran have?
What are short vowels?