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The Birmingham Quran Manuscript

  • Birmingham B15 2TT, Regno Unito
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Arte, Teatri e Musei
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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. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in England dated the parchment to within a 95.4% accuracy. This means that the manuscript may have been written shortly after the Prophet Muhammad died as he is thought to have lived between 570 AD – 632 AD. The manuscript contains text from suras (chapters) 18 – 20 and is written in Arabic Hijazi script.

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