Calligrapher completes largest handwritten Quran

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A former Iraqi goldsmith has spent six years creating what is believed to be the world’s largest handwritten Quran in Istanbul, producing a manuscript with pages measuring four metres long and 1.5 metres wide. Ali Zaman, born in 1971 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, developed a passion for Islamic calligraphy from a young age. After leaving his trade as a jeweller in 2013, he