Dr. Éléonore Cellard
Researcher in early Qur'ānic manuscripts. Shaolin Kungfu in my free time
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I’m excited to announce the release of my new article, which delves into early Qurʾānic manuscripts featuring a fully developed diacritical system. The article explores a key manus...
The John Rylands Library in Manchester holds a giant copy of the Qur'an, probably ordered by the Mamluk Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri in the early 16th century. We assume that the manuscr...
The story of the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest 1/6. In 1895, Mrs Lewis purchased a manuscript in Suez. It was a palimpsest : a Christian Arabic text from the 9th-10th CE, written on re...
- “What brought you to the study of Arabic and history of the Qur’an?” - I was 16 years old… I started to collect every image of old Qur’an manuscript and try to imitate them by h...
On Wednesday 23th, the Louvre museum in Paris will unveil two leaves of a unique Qur’ān manuscript attributed to caliph 'Uthmān, coming from Katta Langar, a village located in Sout...
1/5.As part of my survey of early Qur'ānic manuscripts in Moroccan collections, I'm currently exploring this illuminated copy. It was in the city of Meknes, private collection of A...
1/8. The Ṣanʿāʾ palimpsest is known as the only evidence of a different version of the Qur’an, hidden in its parchment. Despite its current fragmentary condition, we are now sure t...
The Qur’ān copy attributed to caliph ‘Uthmān in the Mashhad Husayn, Cairo (until 2006) is the only monumental manuscript preserving almost the complete Qur’ānic text. With its 1087...
My research project the Qur’ān attributed to the caliph ‘Uthmān ended last month. I think I’ve accomplished a lot during this last year, in accessing all of the dispersed fragments...