{"id":5818,"date":"2018-05-05T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5818-egyptian-calligraphing-world-s-largest-quran\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T13:15:02","slug":"egyptian-calligraphing-world-s-largest-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5818-egyptian-calligraphing-world-s-largest-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian calligraphing world\u2019s largest Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian man intends to calligraph the largest copy of the Quran in the world.\u00a0 Muhammad Abdul Sattar, who lives in Egypt\u2019s northern Dakahlia governorate, started writing the copy in February, Mubtada.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>An Egyptian man intends to calligraph the largest copy of the Quran in the world.\u00a0 Muhammad Abdul Sattar, who lives in Egypt\u2019s northern Dakahlia governorate, started writing the copy in February, Mubtada.com reported.<\/h4>\n<h4>He attended a number of calligraphy courses before embarking on this project. He says he has completed half of the job so far.<\/h4>\n<h4>Each page of the copy measures 9 by 6 meters, containing 44 lines, according to Abdul Sattar. He says he faced many challenges before finally starting the undertaking.<\/h4>\n<h4>They included finding a place large enough to house the huge copy.\u00a0 At last, he chose the largest mosque in the city of Mit Ghamr in Dakahlia governorate.<\/h4>\n<h4>Abdul Sattar says that on average calligraphing each line takes him half an hour.<\/h4>\n<h4>Currently, a Quran printed in the UAE holds the title of the largest Quran copy in the world.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16919\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/images_2018_05_05_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/images_2018_05_05_04.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/images_2018_05_05_04-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian man intends to calligraph the largest copy of the Quran in the world.\u00a0 Muhammad Abdul Sattar, who lives in Egypt\u2019s northern Dakahlia governorate, started writing the copy in February, Mubtada.com reported. \u00a0 An Egyptian man intends to calligraph the largest copy of the Quran in the world.\u00a0 Muhammad Abdul Sattar, who lives in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55,224,168,675],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-egypt","tag-quran","tag-report","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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