It's such a shame they have to treat God's word as a matter of bucks and dollas.
The only thing I can hope now is if the money goes to charity to feed some poor, starving souls rather than line some greedy business man's big fat pockets.
I was actually more interested in the information the article provided. (that it was the oldest most complete copy, that it represented a change in format and some of its history and other copies.)
Maybe a Muslim purchased it to perserve it correctly.
The calligraphy has marginal notes written in silver.
Auction house Christie's said it was a world record for both a Koran and an Islamic manuscript. It was expected to sell for between £500,000 and £750,000.
A second Koran, a nearly-complete text from the 10th century, was sold for almost £916,500.
Both were sold on behalf of the Hispanic Society of America, and were bought by British trade buyers.
How did the original hispanic fellow aquire this museum quality treasure to begin with?.. isn't it a crying shame how much of our prized possessions Islamic or pre-Islamic have been smuggled, distributed bought and sold illicitly?
it is disheartening...
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
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