Kuwait’s Tareq Rajab Museum Hosting Islamic Art Collection (+Photos)
Another section called Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy was inaugurated in 2007.
The museum houses a collection of over thirty thousand data-x-items collected over the last sixty years, of which approximately ten thousand are on permanent display, according to its website.
Tareq Rajab Museum hosts collections of Islamic ceramics, glass, metalwork, silver folk jewelry, textiles, embroideries, costumes, musical instruments, and orientalist artworks.
The calligraphy section has put on display various Arabic manuscripts, including historic copies of the Quran.
Some of the earliest examples in the museum include a 7th-century ‘Ma’il’ (slanting) Script from Hijaz, modern-day Saudi Arabia and 9th century Qur’an’s written on vellum from North/East Africa. The museum is also home to one of, if not the only known complete and dated Qur’an written in Kufic script (AD 1002). The museum houses a number of important Holy Qur’an’s, including works by the famous Yaqut al-Musta’simi and his pupil Abdul Allah al-Sairafi.
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