"Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian." Quran 15:9

Early copy of the Qur’an discovered
Researchers in Germany have discovered that a manuscript of Qur’an written between 20 and 40 years after the Prophet Muhammad’s death, making it one of the earliest copies of the Islamic holy book known to be in existence.



Scholars at the Coranica Project, part of the University of Tübingen, examined a manuscript written in Kufic script, one of the oldest forms of Arabic writing. Using carbon-14 dating on three samples of the manuscript parchment, the researchers concluded that it was more than 95 percent likely to have originated in the period 649-675 AD.

The manuscript is one of more than 20 fragments of Kufic script held by the Tübingen University Library. This particular item was donated to the university in the 19th century.

The entire manuscript has already been digitized and can be viewed here.

The Coranica project, a collaboration between the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Paris and the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and France’s Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). The project investigates the Quran in the context of its historical background using documents such as manuscripts and information derived from archaeological excavations.

http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/17/early-copy-quran-discovered/

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Subhanallah! So this is a blessed writing of a companion or a tabi'in? So this is how they write back then? I find it difficult to make a sentence, except the last picture with Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem in the beginning...Allahu Akbar!

Subhanallah.

This is really amazing.
Can anyone tell us the surah I have difficulty reading the ayyas

sino:
Subhanallah! So this is a blessed writing of a companion or a tabi'in? So this is how they write back then? I find it difficult to make a sentence, except the last picture with Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem in the beginning...Allahu Akbar!

I think they are writing in ancient/old arabic because I can't see a dot on their 'faf' and 'qaf' has one dot on it.

lanrexlan:
I think they are writing in ancient/old arabic because I can't see a dot on their 'faf' and 'qaf' has one dot on it.

Indeed it's an old script, Imagine people having to learn the Qur'an with this style now...

Alhamdulilah!

sino:

Indeed it's an old script, Imagine people having to learn the Qur'an with this style now...

Alhamdulilah!

Those red dots are by later scribes, there were no dots or vowel signs...


SubhanAllah!

tbaba1234:


Those red dots are by later scribes, there were no dots or vowel signs...


SubhanAllah!

Imagine no dots or vowel signs, i guess majority were fixed on the oral recitation, cos the transition is quite amazing, from this to what we have now is just amazing... Subhanallah!

sino:


Imagine no dots or vowel signs, i guess majority were fixed on the oral recitation, cos the transition is quite amazing, from this to what we have now is just amazing... Subhanallah!

Those vowel signs were invented for non arabs.

tbaba1234:


Those vowel signs were invented for non arabs.

The inventors were life-savers