objectMushafObjects · RitualsA named bound volume of the Qur’anic text as a handled object. Not the Qur’an as a speech-entity, not a Sefer Torah, and not a generic book.IslamMushaf is historically related to Qur’an.Hughes notes on the written Qurʾān seat the muṣḥaf as the bound codex of the Qurʾān text — codex speech, not oral qirāʾah alone.from Thomas Patrick Hughes · A Dictionary of Islam, 1885historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesA Dictionary of Islam · Thomas Patrick HughesThomas Patrick Hughes, A Dictionary of Islam (1885).