Iraq: Folio from a Qur'an, ink, gold and colour on paper, early 14th Century, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

This Qur’an from early 14th-century Iraq was commissioned by the Ilkhanid Mongol ruler Oljaitu (1280-1316, r. 1304-1316) in Baghdad in the early 1300s.

It was brought back to Istanbul as a trophy by the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan Suleiman I, 1494-1566, r. 1520-1566) after his victory in the Ottoman-Safavid War (1532-1555).

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