This richly carved stand was made to hold the Koran, the holy book of Islam.
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Koran stand (about 1360) by Hasan Ibn Sulayman of Isfanhan, West Turkestan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, (1910). (10.218) (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.</P>
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