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How South Africa's oldest Quran was saved by Cape Town Muslims

2023-08-23 10:46
Written by a political prisoner, it is now kept in a bullet-proof casing in a Cape Town mosque.
How South Africa's oldest Quran was saved by Cape Town Muslims

A Quran - neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who had been banished to the southern tip of Africa by Dutch colonisers - is the pride of Cape Town Muslims who jealously guard it at a mosque in the city's historic Bo Kaap district.

Builders found it in a paper bag in...