An ancient copy of the Quran in the collection of Britain's University of Buckingham has been carbon dated to near the time of the Prophet Muhammad
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The so-called Codex Parisino-petropolitanus formerly conserved portions of two of the oldest extant Quranic manuscripts. Most surviving leaves represent a Quran that is preserved in various fragments, the largest part of which are kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as BNF Arabe 328 (ab).
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The Birmingham Quran Manuscript is currently believed to be the oldest Quran in the world. This manuscript consists of two leaves of parchment that are a fragment of an early Quranic manuscript dated between 568 AD – 645 AD.
06/13/2024 - 7:15 am | View Website - Carbon Dating Reveals One of the Oldest Known Copies of the Quran
Leaves from an ancient Quran manuscript that have been housed at the rare book collections of the University of Birmingham in the U.K. since the 1920 were recently estimated to be nearly 1,500...
06/12/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Website - Sanaa manuscript
Part of a sizable cache of Quranic and non-Quranic fragments discovered in Yemen during a 1972 restoration of the Great Mosque of Sanaa, the manuscript was identified as a palimpsest Quran in 1981 as it is written on parchment and comprises two layers of text.
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