World's oldest Quran

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SBM
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World's oldest Quran

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Unread post by SBM » Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:31 pm

London (CNN)For years, the two parchment leaves covered in an elegant early form of Arabic script were misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript dating from the late seventh century.

Now, with the help of radiocarbon analysis, the two fragments have been shown to be decades older -- which puts them among the oldest known examples in the world, according to researchers at the UK's University of Birmingham.

The testing, which is more than 95% accurate, has dated the parchment on which the text is written to between 568 and 645 AD, the researchers said.

This means it was created close to the time of the Prophet Mohammed, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632 AD, they said.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/europe/uk ... index.html

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Re: World's oldest Quran

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Re: World's oldest Quran

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Unread post by Ozdundee » Fri Jul 24, 2015 8:14 am

Taqbir Allah Akbar, Masallah

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Re: World's oldest Quran

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Unread post by Muslim First » Sun Jul 26, 2015 2:07 pm

interesting article, worth reading

Qur'an Discovery: I am neither excited nor bothered
Shaikh Haitham Al-Haddad

http://www.islam21c.com/islamic-thought ... -bothered/