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Certificate of Achievement

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

has completed the following course:

THE BIRMINGHAM QUR'AN: ITS JOURNEY FROM THE ISLAMIC HEARTLANDS

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

This course explored the origins and the journey of the Birmingham Qur’an from the Islamic heartlands,
the significance of the Birmingham Qur’an, the methods used to determine its age and how it is cared
for at Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

4 weeks, 3 hours per week

Susan Worrall
Director of Special Collections
University of Birmingham

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 Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi
has completed the following course:

THE BIRMINGHAM QUR'AN: ITS JOURNEY FROM THE ISLAMIC HEARTLANDS

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

The Birmingham Qur’an is one of the oldest • Reflect on how radiocarbon dating and modern
surviving Islamic manuscripts. You learned how technology can be used to date and analyse
to identify features of Qur’an manuscripts and manuscripts
how they influenced the arts of the book in • Compare and identify techniques and
Islamic manuscript culture. You also learned preservation methods used to care for historic
about the Mingana collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts
manuscripts and their relevance to the 21st
SYLLABUS
century.
Week 1 The Journey of the Birmingham Qur’an
STUDY REQUIREMENT manuscript; How the radiocarbon dating of the
4 weeks, 3 hours per week manuscript became a world-wide news
sensation; The significance of the dating and its
LEARNING OUTCOMES
origins
• Explore and understand the historic and cultural
significance of the Birmingham Qur’an Week 2 The Qur’an and the Arts of the Book;
manuscript dating How the Birmingham Qur’an manuscript relates
• Develop an appreciation of the religious, social to the development of the Arabic written
and community importance of the Birmingham tradition; Qur’an manuscripts and Arabic
Qur’an manuscript calligraphy; The Arts of Qur’an manuscripts and
• Engage with the journey of the Birmingham Islamic manuscript culture
Qur’an from the Islamic heartlands to
Week 3 Using radiocarbon dating to date
Birmingham University
manuscripts; Modern technology in the research
• Investigate the features of the Birmingham
and analysis of historic manuscripts; Techniques
Qur'an manuscript and understand how they
and preservation methods in the conservation
relate to the Arabic written tradition
and care of historic manuscripts; The value of
• Demonstrate an ability to trace developments in
primary historic sources as a valuable resource
Arabic script, calligraphy and the decorative arts
for research
used in Qur'anic manuscripts
• Assess the benefits to research through Week 4 The Birmingham Qur’an and other
consulting primary source materials historic manuscripts of the Mingana collection;
• Explore and appreciate the size, variety and The Islamic Arabic & Persian manuscripts in the
importance of the Mingana collection of Middle Mingana collection held in the Cadbury Research
Eastern manuscripts Library as a collection of international
• Debate the morals and ethics of western importance; The relevance of the Birmingham
collecting from other cultures Qur’an and other manuscripts to the
• Evaluate and consider the relevance of historic contemporary world, local communities,
manuscripts to the contemporary world researchers and academics; The ethics of
collecting from different cultures

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