Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Ihavandhoo Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0007)
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Cite
APA
R. Michael Feener, ., & Multia Zahara, . (n.d.). Ihavandhoo Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0007) (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4092
Chicago
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. n.d. “Ihavandhoo Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0007).”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4092
MLA
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. Ihavandhoo Qur’an 7 (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0007), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4092
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maldives_MF_MZ_01
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ihaavandhoo, Haa Alif, Maldives
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Produced as part of a waqf endowment for the Aasaaree Hukuru Miskiyy (Old Friday Mosque) on Ihavandhoo.
- Present Location
- Preserved in the Aasaaree Hukuru Miskiyy (Old Friday Mosque) on Ihavandhoo, Haa Alifu Atoll, Maldives
- Language
- Arabic
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'ans
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Script
- Other
- Remarks (General Identification)
- This manuscript (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0007) is volume 7 of 30 in a complete Qur’an text kept at the Hirigalu Miskiyy in Ihavandhoo (Haa Alif). They are stored in a wooden box with a removable lid and brass lock (no longer functional, and the key has been lost). The interior of the box is divided into three sections. Each section houses 10 sections (Ar. juz’/ajza’) of a Qurʾān MS, complete in 30 sections according to a traditional liturgical division. Most of the pages are slightly bent or frayed along the edges with tell-tale stains of use by readers in the corners where pages would be held when turning. The bottom left corner of the verso of each page is marked with a diagonally written catch-word for the recto of the page that follows. Verses (Ar. ayat) are separated by simple black circles filled in with red ink. Red is also used for the numbering (written out in full words) of each juz’ on the first page of Qurʾānic text in each volume, indications of quarter and half juz’ divisions, and for reading marks throughout. The first page of each volume notes the initial word of Qurʾānic text appearing in that volume in black ink. Black ink is used for the main text of the Qurʾān, and for marginal corrections to scribal errors across a number of the volumes. A note in Dhivehi (mixed with Arabic) on the first page of each volume records that Ibrāhīm Musa of Ihavandhoo bestowed this 30-volume Qurʾān as a waqf to be read in the Maa Miskiyy of Ihavandhoo, and that the texts are entrusted to the care to Usman Kali (Uthman Qadi).
- Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Writing Surface
- paper\type of paper\European paper
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 22 x 16 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 7 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- red ink
- Remarks (Support)
- Qurʾān codex, Maldivian, Ihavandhoo
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long flattened tapered tail, hairline ending
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long diagonal tapered tail, hairline ending
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- final dhāl with point inside tail