Details

Subject(s)

• Wooden tablets—Specimens [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Study and teaching [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Qurʼanic boards [Browse]

Medium/​Support

wood rdamat

Summary note

Wooden tablet, of a kind found in Qurʼanic schools in many parts of the world, with text from the Qurʼan on both sides. The date is unknown. Such tablets are typically written by the students themselves, before their teachers review them to make corrections. Faint traces of an older text are visible indicating re-use.

Notes

• Description: Slightly tapered rectangular wooden writing board with handle. From base to top of handle: 444 mm; width at base of paddle: 142 mm; width at top of paddle:158 mm. 6 mm thick
• Text: Flat side: Sūrat al-Waqiʼah verses 53-end of surah (Sūrah 56:53-96) followed by Sūrat al-Waqiʼah verses 1-21 (incomplete); convex side: Sūrat al-Waqiʼah verses 21-81 (Sūrah 56:21-81).

Source of description

Title devised by cataloger.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī

OCLC

1340393569

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