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October 08, 2007: Rare Quran Up for Auction
"A 400-year-old handwritten copy of the Holy Quran is fetching offers of up to $4.3 million for its sale."
"The centuries-old copy of the central religious text of Islam belonged to a Yemeni Islamic scholar who gave the book to a Qatari national in Makkah during last year’s holy month of Ramadan..."
