US$4.3 million offer for 400-year-old Al-Qur`an

"I might agree to part with it if I get a good offer. The last offer I got was for $4.3m," Saeed Ali Al Suwaidi told IINA.

He said he went to Makkah in Ramadan last year and had a chance meeting with a Yemeni Islamic scholar.

"We began talking after a preliminary introduction. He told me that he had a rare copy of a Holy Quran. It was handwritten and a little less than 400 years old. He asked me if I would accept it for safekeeping."