Radiocarbon analysis dated the manuscripts close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad [Birmingham University]
Fragments of the Quran held by the UK's Birmingham University have been found to be among the oldest in the world.

Following radiocarbon analysis by the University of Oxford, the manuscripts, written on parchments, have been dated to from between AD 568 and 645, with 95 percent accuracy.

The results place the papers close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.

Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections at the University of Birmingham, said: "The radiocarbon dating has delivered an exciting result, which contributes significantly to our understanding of the earliest written copies of the Quran. 



"We are thrilled that such an important historical document is here in Birmingham, the most culturally diverse city in the UK."

The two parchments form part of the University’s Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts.

The manuscripts are written with ink in Hijazi - an early form of Arabic. They contain parts of Suras (chapters) 18 to 20.

For many years, the manuscript had been misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript, which is datable to the late seventh century.

Dr Muhammad Isa Waley, Lead Curator for Persian and Turkish Manuscripts at the British Library, said: "This is indeed an exciting discovery. We know now that these two folios, in a beautiful and surprisingly legible Hijazi hand, almost certainly date from the time of the first three Caliphs."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/world-oldest-quran-manuscripts-uk-150722110034399.html

God is Great.

Manuscripts? Thought they said the book fell from the sky.

basisop:
Manuscripts? Thought they said the book fell from the sky.

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basisop:
Manuscripts? Thought they said the book fell from the sky.

seek 4 d knowlegde islam n qur'an are beyond human thinking faculty. d word thought shows dat u v no idea.Qur'an was revealed to prophet muhammad S A W through the angel jubril/gabrael who was sent by Allah. Muhammad S A W was an unlettered yet he was mor dan a professor in any field of knowlege (the miracle of Allah).He did recite d qur'an offhand as he was thought witot addition,subtraction,contradiction,interpolation...and he warned those who were lettered to pen it down exactly d way he recited it.the pics abov shld b among writien by dos pple directly 4rm d prophet.Allah is the greated,indeed He's the one guiding the qur'an against version,contradiction,revision,edition...as it was in d life of Muhammad,till today,tomorrow and eternity qur'an wil neva suffer any error n its status stil rmain...No Islam No Paradise,Bro n sis in islam join me to say Allahu Akbar by hitting LIKE

Bakrabas:
seek 4 d knowlegde islam n qur'an are beyond human thinking faculty. d word thought shows dat u v no idea.Qur'an was revealed to prophet muhammad S A W through the angel jubril/gabrael who was sent by Allah. Muhammad S A W was an unlettered yet he was mor dan a professor in any field of knowlege (the miracle of Allah).He did recite d qur'an offhand as he was thought witot addition,subtraction,contradiction,interpolation...and he warned those who were lettered to pen it down exactly d way he recited it.the pics abov shld b among writien by dos pple directly 4rm d prophet.Allah is the greated,indeed He's the one guiding the qur'an against version,contradiction,revision,edition...as it was in d life of Muhammad,till today,tomorrow and eternity qur'an wil neva suffer any error n its status stil rmain...No Islam No Paradise,Bro n sis in islam join me to say Allahu Akbar by hitting LIKE

Mohammed must have visited england in 600ADs.

allahuu arc-bar! allhaa is the hatest.

It is not surprising. It is not a prehistoric manuscript like Hammurabi's code. The first Quaran was published in MS form some 700 years after the birth of Christianity. It is claimed that the angel Gabriel who appeared before Mary made revelations to Muhammad. How could the Christian angel Gabriel who revealed to Mary about the birth of Jesus and the consequent birth of Christianity reveal the birth of Islam contradicting the first revelation? All the patriarchs, prophets and even Jesus and Mary mentioned in the Bible were hijacked to the Koran.

Since Muhammad was illiterate, the Koran was composed by his confidante Zaid ibn Thabit. The Bible was used as a blueprint for the composition of Koran. There were also many other versions of the Qua ran. But the official version was published by caliph Othman by making many deletions and additions. Muhammad's wife Aishah was still alive when Othman published his version of Quaran.

In spite of Aishah's bitter opposition, Othman destroyed the original Quaran of Muhammad and distributed his version of the Quaran in all mosques and made it official. Probably the fragments of Qua ran found in Birmingham University are from Othman's Qua ran. But doubts exist. Carbon dating will not be correct in many cases. Like the Sumerian clay tablets in the British museum, this Quaran fragment would have been added at a later date by Birmingham University when manuscripts were available in Egypt when it was under British control.