{"id":205,"date":"2011-02-10T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-02-10T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:38:04","slug":"huge-koran-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Huge Koran goes digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Koran_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-206\" title=\"The Koran of Qansuh al-Ghuri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Koran_02-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too big and fragile to handle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s most important and largest Korans is finally becoming accessible to Islamic scholars everywhere, after being hidden away in a Manchester library for more than a hundred years. Because of its age and size, the book is too fragile to be moved around or studied in detail. But now it is being digitalised by a photographer, and made available on the internet. Listen to my piece for Deutsche Welle Radio here:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"boo_player_1\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F274970-huge-koran-goes-digital.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger&amp;mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F274970-huge-koran-goes-digital&amp;mp3Title=Huge+Koran+goes+digital&amp;mp3Time=12.33pm+10+Feb+2011&amp;rootID=boo_player_1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><embed id=\"boo_player_1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"129\" src=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" flashvars=\"mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F274970-huge-koran-goes-digital.mp3%3Fsource%3Dembed&amp;mp3Author=lbevanger&amp;mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F274970-huge-koran-goes-digital&amp;mp3Title=Huge+Koran+goes+digital&amp;mp3Time=12.33pm+10+Feb+2011&amp;rootID=boo_player_1\" wmode=\"window\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" salign=\"lt\" scale=\"noscale\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most important and largest Korans is finally becoming accessible to Islamic scholars everywhere, after being hidden away in a Manchester library for more than a hundred years. Because of its age and size, the book is too fragile to be moved around or studied in detail. But now it is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}