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Newsletter (03.10.2015) - British Library Trip & Welcome to New Students

4/10/2015

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British Library TRIP – October Half-Term Week
Optional Trip during the Half-Term Holidays to workshops at the British Library for both Primary and Secondary Students. Workshops to include:

‘Sacred Texts’ and ‘Make a Book’ – more information to come next week insha’Allah. Students will be exploring the following texts:

a. 8Th Century Qur’an (The Ma'il Qur'an) – one of the Oldest preserved in the World (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/meccaquran.html)

b. Sultan Baybars' Qur'an (Mamluk Period) (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/podalisonohta.html)

c. Mamluk Qur'an (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/mamlukquran.html)

d. Spanish Qur'an – A Qur’an that survived the Reconquista (Christian reconquest of Spain - the expulsion of Islam from the peninsula under Ferdinand and Isabella, a process largely completed by 1492, when their recapture of Granada earned them the title 'the Catholic Monarchs') http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/spanishquran.html

e. Memoirs of Babur (Mughals) (http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b4e4b216-731f-44a5-ad21-a6091b7ef8f2&type=book)

f. Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan (Grandson of Timur – Tamerlane) (http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=99766950-7e67-4fde-9e40-bc0c92c04adc&type=book)

g. Hajj certificate - This beautiful scroll from the 15th century commemorates the hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca - by a woman called Maymunah. Illustrated with images of Mecca and other places of interest en route, it is a fascinating document that combines both religious and geographical information. (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/hajjcert.html)