Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Ihavandhoo Surah al-Kahf (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0037)
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Cite
APA
R. Michael Feener, ., & Multia Zahara, . (n.d.). Ihavandhoo Surah al-Kahf (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0037) (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4093
Chicago
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. n.d. “Ihavandhoo Surah al-Kahf (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0037).”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4093
MLA
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. Ihavandhoo Surah Al-Kahf (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0037), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4093
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maldives_MF_MZ_02
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1300 H.
- 1883
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Ihaavandhoo, Haa Alif, Maldives
- Present Location
- Hirigalu Miskiyy, Ihaavandhoo, Haa Alif, Maldives
- Title of the Document (If Relevant)
- Qur'ans
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Color of the Script
- black
- Remarks (General Identification)
- This manuscript (MAHS-MDV-HAF-IVD-S-001-O-0037) is one in a set of ten volumes, each presenting the complete text of Surat al-Kahf (s.18). This MS was found in the Hirigalu Miskiyy in Ihavandhoo (Haa Alif). It is 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 and appears to have been originally constructed to house 10 sections (Ar. juz’/ajza’) each of a Qurʾān MS, complete in 30 sections according to a traditional liturgical division (HAF-IVD-1-MS1). The eight volumes of this MS appear to have simply been tucked in alongside the longer text for safekeeping. Each volume contains paper pages (without watermark) sewn and bound with covers of indigo-dyed cloth. Text in black ink, with simple black circles containing a black dot to mark the divisions between verses. Red ink used for the chapter (sura) heading at the start of volume one, presenting it’s name, its revelation in Mekka, and the number of verses – as well as for minor corrections throughout. Every volume except for v.9 contains a short colophon at the end containing the name of the scribe and date. Additional marginal corrections noted in pencil.
- 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)
- 9 lines per page
- Technique
- written
- Instrument
- reed pen
- Ink
- black ink (composition unknown)
- red ink
- Remarks (Support)
- Surat al-Kahf codex, Maldivian, Ihavandhoo, 1883
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined partial square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long thick angular oblique tapered tail
- mīm descenders
- downstroke elongated leftwards
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
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
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- medial swollen bottom and short top eye
- 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 with thin right stroke
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Oversized isolated and final dāl/dhāl, point inside tail