Our cities
Explore each city’s unrepeatable delights and mysteries with your own eyes. Learn about the unique history and tales of you preferred city with its landscapes and sites, and much more…
- Abadan
- Abarkooh
- Abyaneh
- Ahvaz
- Amol
- Arak
- Ardabil
- Ardakan
- Astara
- Babol
- Babolsar
- Bam
- Bandar Abbas
- Bandar Anzali
- Birjand
- Borazjan
- Boroujerd
- Bushehr
- Chabahar
- Chalous
- Damghan
- Dezful
- Gorgan
- Hamadan
- Ilam
- Isfahan
- Jiroft
- Kashan
- Kerman
- Kermanshah
- Khorramabad
- Kish
- Lahijan
- Mahan
- Mahmoud Abad
- Maku
- Mashhad
- Meybod
- Naein
- Nour
- Nowshahr
- Oraman
- Qazvin
- Qeshm
- Qom
- Rafsanjan
- Ramsar
- Rasht
- Sanandaj
- Sari
- Semnan
- Shahr-e Kord
- Shahroud
- Shiraz
- Shush
- Shushtar
- Sirjan
- Tabriz
- Tehran
- Tonekabon
- Urmia
- Yasuj
- Yazd
- Zahedan
- Zanjan
This museum displays a trove of 9th and 10th century Qurans as well as precious Qurans from the Buyid (949 to 983), Seljuq (1038-1118), Ilkhanid (1256–1335), Timurid (1370–1507), Safavid (1501-1722)and Qajar (1785–1925) eras. The oldest Quran on display at the museum dates back to 813 and has the name of Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun (786-833 CE) inscribed on the first page.
Some of the Qurans have been written on parchment, cloth and various types of paper. These Qurans are mainly in Nastaleeq, Thuluth, Kufic, Rayhan, Muhaqqaq calligraphy hands and the works of calligraphers such as Ahmad Neyrizi, Feyzollah Lahouri, Shamselddin Abdollahdust, Ali Naqi bin Mohammad Kabir Rabani and Mohammad bin Soleiman al-Heravi.
Naskh and Nastaleeq script Persian translations have been added to some of these Qurans, which show the development of the Persian language and literature over the centuries.
Many of the Qurans are illuminated manuscripts decorated with delicate arabesque, flower and medallion motifs. Some of these Qurans are leather-bound and others have gold cases.
Quran and Manuscripts Museum of the Fatemeh Masoumeh Shrine
-
Address
Hazrat-e Masumeh Shrine