A pictorial catalog of the Qur’an copies in both Alexandria Municipal Library and Abūl-‘Abbās al-Murisy Mosque. It opens with an introduction on the role of mosques in the establishment of Arab Islamic civilization. It reviews comprehensively the collection of rare manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an with photos of the most exquisite and significant ones in terms of illumination and decoration. The covering photo is the opening of the Qur’an copy preserved at Abūl-‘Abbās al-Murisy Mosque with the classification number 221/79, 48 × 34 cm. It was an endowment to the Mosque by Lady Igni, the wife of the late Muhammad Sa‘īd Pasha.

Number of pages: 62.

     The General Organization of Alexandria Library, 1996.