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Institution

The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Present shelfmark

C 197

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Paper

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Single text

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Language

Script

Arabic

Incipit

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Explicit

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Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1500

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General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/NAQQCM6C/tags/Sredneaziatskii_tefsir/item-list

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This is an example of a commented translation into Eastern Turkic, the so-called “Central Asian tafsīr”. In this document, from Q 18 onwards, the text in Arabic is accompanied by an interlinear translation into Turkic and stories related to each sūra. Starting with Q 48, the translator also provides commentaries upon the translation (Borovkov). The grammatical features of the commentaries made János Eckmann suggest that this manuscript was composed not earlier than the fifteenth century (Eckmann, Eastern Turkic Translations).

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina