coloured paper

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The paper substrate was specifically treated or dyed to achieve a tender pink hue, which is a distinctive aesthetic choice for Qur'anic manuscripts produced in the western Islamic lands (Maghrib). This pink paper served as a substrate for script in gold and blue (p. 8).

Evidence

"the leaves themselves have a tender pink hue. This latter trait has led the twenty-volume manuscript from which these leaves hail to be named ‘The Pink Qur’an’."

Remarks

The color is highly distinctive of Qur'ans from the west and contrasts with the more common white or cream-colored papers of the eastern Islamic world (p. 8).