Turkish, Anatolia

In Islam, the unique position of the Arabic script, in its many different styles, arose from the belief that it was the chosen medium for recording the word of God in the Qur'an. It served as both a unifying bond for Muslims in different parts of the Islamic world and the most consistently important vehicle for artistic expression. In this Indian Qur'an, the text is written in rayhani script while the gold arabesque borders contain lines in kufic script. Written diagonally between the main lines of text are Persian translations in naskhi script.