The precious 200-year-old Quran, the pride of Cape Town Muslims

A Koran - neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who was exiled to the southern tip of Africa by Dutch colonizers - is the pride of Cape Town Muslims who keep it in a mosque in the city's historic quarter Bo Kaap, reports the BBC.

Builders found it in a paper bag in the attic of the Auwal Mosque while they were reconstructing it in the mid-1980s.

Scholars believe that Imam Abdullah ibn Kadi Abdus Salaam, affectionately known as Tuan Guru, wrote the Qur'an from memory sometime after he was sent to Cape Town as a political prisoner from Tidore Island in Indonesia in 1780 as punishment. for joining the resistance movement against the Dutch colonizers.

The major challenge for the local Muslim community in their attempt to preserve one of the most valuable artifacts in their rich heritage, which dates back to 1694, was to ensure that all pages containing more than 6,000 verses of Quran to be placed in the right sequence./ CNA

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