Huwaireb added that the discovery of the 'priceless The root of Islam, it's the root of the Quran,' 'This version, this collection, this manuscript is Manuscript, said that he believes Abu Bakr commissioned Huwareib, who has visited Birmingham to examine the Writer of the oldest Quran might have known the Islamic Up for debate – as the recorded death of Muhammad isĭavid Thomas, Birmingham University's professor ofĬhristianity and Islam, suggested it is possible the Somewhere between 568 and 645, which leaves the question Radiocarbon testing is placing the date of the manuscript Traditional accounts of the Quran's origins,' 'If anything, the manuscript has consolidated London's School of Oriental and African Studies Radiocarbon dating indicated that the parchment folios held by the University of Birmingham in central England were at least 1,370 years old, which would make them one of the earliest written forms of the Islamic holy book in existence.Mustafa Shah of the University of A British university said on Wednesday that fragments of a Koran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in the world, possibly written by someone who might have known the Islamic prophet Mohammad. Revelation from Heaven,' Keith Small of Oxford'sĪ fragment of a Quran manuscript is seen in the library at the University of Birmingham in Britain July 22, 2015. Theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a

His early followers used a text that was already inĮxistence and shaped it to fit their own political and Views of the Quran's genesis, like that Muhammad and 'This gives more ground to what have been peripheral

Suggesting that the written work actually predates the There has been some dispute over the exact dating of theīirmingham fragments, however, with some British scholars Which are known to have been kept at the Mosque of Amr ibn Quran fragments held at the National Library of France, That the Birmingham manuscript is an exact match of other The BBC report noted that academics were able to determine Researchers like Huwareib are now claiming there isĮvidence that the written work was commissioned by Abuīakr, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, forĮgypt's oldest mosque, the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in World's oldest Quran uncovered by the University ofīirmingham in the U.K.

The story concerns 1,370-year-old fragments of the Muslim world,' declared Jamal bin Huwareib, managingĭirector of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, 'It's the most important discovery ever for the Scholars to believe it was compiled for Egypt's first Version of the Quran, the Islamic holy text, has led some New information surrounding the oldest discovered written Radiocarbon dating indicated that the parchment folios held by the University of Birmingham in central England were at least 1,370 years old, which would make them one of the earliest written forms of the Islamic holy book in existence. A British university said on Wednesday that fragments of a Quran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in the world, possibly written by someone who might have known the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Conservator, Marie Sviergula holds a fragment of a Quran manuscript in the library at the University of Birmingham in Britain, July 22, 2015.

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