Shahid Rassam, a Pakistani artist, will be showcasing what is said to be the world’s largest Quran at the Dubai Expo 2020, the Khaleej Times reported on Tuesday.
The project, being developed in Karachi, is the first of its kind, cast on canvas, with aluminium and gold-plated script. Traditionally, the Quran is inscribed on cloth, paper or leather. The inscription on aluminium is the first in more than 1,400 years of Islamic history.
Rassam is being facilitated by a Dubai-based Pakistani businessman, Irfan Mustafa. The artist has won multiple international awards, initiated the project five years ago and will be show-casing part of his project at the six-month-long Dubai expo.
"Excluding the frame, the Holy Quran is 8.5-foot tall and 6.5-foot wide. It will have 150 words on one page, and the total number of pages is 550,” Khaleej Times quoted an artist associated with the project as saying
According to the Guinness World Records, the largest printed Quran measures 6.74 feet in height, 4.11 feet in width, and 6.69 inches in thickness. The copy has a total of 632 pages and weighs 552.74kg.
Previously, Rassam inscribed 99 names of Allah with aluminium and gold-plated letters.
