How Muslims in Cape Town preserved South Africa's oldest Qur’an A Qur'an – neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who had been banished to the southern tip of Africa by Dutch colonisers – is the pride of Cape Town Muslims who jealously guard it at a mosque in the city’s historic Bo Kaap district. Builders found it in a paper bag in the Auwal Mosque’s attic, while they were breaking it down as part of renovations in the mid-1980s. Researchers believe that Imam Abdullah ibn Qadi Abdus...