Vahidov Sh. The History of the ‘Ishqiyya Brotherhood’s Sacred Relics. II: the Katta Langar Qu’rāns (New Fragments) // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 8. No. 3. September 2002. P. 34—41.
In his marvelous book of recollections “Among Arabic
Manuscripts”, I. Ju. Krachkovsky included a section titled
with the Russian proverb — Na lovtsa i zver' bezhit (“Game
runs to meet the hunter”). The short chapters in this section
describe the unique finds that seemingly present themselves
to the scholar when the latter plunges headlong into his
work. One of these chapters, entitled “The Kūfic Qur’ān
and the Arab grandmother” [1], is often recalled today
in reference to the activities of Uzbek, Russian, French
and Dutch scholars who are studying Qur’ānic manuscripts
held to this day in the qīshlāq of Katta Langar (Kashka-darya
region of Uzbekistan, 80 km from the city of
Shahrisabz) in the mosque and mazār, the hereditary burial-vault
of the ‘Ishqiyya brotherhood. The fact is that the
manuscript that inspired I. Ju. Krachkovsky was held there
for many years...
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