Copy of Holy Quran stolen from a shrine in Namangan found

According to the regional DIA, as a result of the rapid search activities carried out by the department, it was found that a copy of the manuscript was hidden in one of the apartments in Namangan city.

Two persons suspected of theft have been arrested.

This copy of the Holy Quran, written at the end of the 19th century, was kept in the shrine of Sultan Uwais Karaniy in the Chartak district. 

The stolen copy of the Holy Quran is made entirely of silk and was completed in 1874. The book was 74 centimeters tall, 51 centimeters wide and 12 centimeters thick. 13 lines of verses are written on each page of the 426-page book.

The manuscript belongs to the house of Mawlana Khoja Lutfullah Chusti. Until 1995, it was kept in the house of Eshonkhan Okilov, who lived and served as an imam in Uzgan, Kyrgyzstan. In 1995, Kamolkhon Muhiddinov from Namangan brought the book to Uzbekistan. In 2017-2019, after the restoration of Sultan Uwais Karaniy Shrine, the manuscript was moved there.