{"id":7375,"date":"2018-02-12T21:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:56:14","slug":"turkish-museum-displays-800-year-old-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkish-museum-displays-800-year-old-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish museum displays 800-year-old Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7376\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Quran.jpg\" alt=\"Quran\" width=\"308\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Quran.jpg 308w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Quran-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/>The manuscripts of an 800-year-old Quran are being exhibited at the Tokat Museum in northern Turkey.<br \/>\nProvincial Director of Culture and Tourism Adem Cakir told Anadolu Agency: \u201cThis Quran is the oldest written work being exhibited at our museums in Anatolia.\u201d<br \/>\nHe noted that the Quran was found in Tokat and then restored in central province of Konya in 2010. After one year of restoration work the manuscripts began exhibiting at the museum in 2011, he added.<br \/>\nThe colophon of the Quran indicates it was written in 1190, Cakir said and added, \u201cIt is a rare work. Translation of the Arabic verses is also written underneath the (Arabic) text.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/turkish-museum-displays-800-year-old-quran\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The manuscripts of an 800-year-old Quran are being exhibited at the Tokat Museum in northern Turkey. Provincial Director of Culture and Tourism Adem Cakir told Anadolu Agency: \u201cThis Quran is the oldest written work being exhibited at our museums in Anatolia.\u201d He noted that the Quran was found in Tokat and then restored in central &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}