The Qur'an encrypted: a unique Qur'anic manuscript in cipher
The contribution aims at (re-)considering a unique Qur’ān manuscript in ciphered characters (Ar. al-ta‘miya), reminiscent of the ring-letters of the Graeco-Egyptian tradition (Brillenbuchstaben). The case of this Qur’an manuscript offers the opportunity to decode (Ar. istikhrāj al-mu‘ammà) a cryptographed text, to date and localize a very special Quranic codex and to investigate the history of the collections it passed through, as well as the religious and cultural context of its production.