May
10
/ 2022
The Qur’an is the Islamic Holy text written approximately 1400 years ago, originally memorized and recited orally, and believed to contain the words of archangel Gabriel revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. It is the most sacred book of the Islamic faith, and yet one particular copy has remained locked away in a secret vault, never to be seen again by the public – the Blood Qur’an. The Blood Qur’an was written entirely in the blood of the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, who commissioned the book in 1997 to mark his 60th birthday. Bizarrely, the former president allegedly donated 24–27 litres (50 to 57 pints) of his blood to be used as ink to write the 6,000 verses and
