Discovery: Fragments of what is believed to be the world's oldest Koran. Several historians have said it could even predate the Prophet Muhammad
Posted on 09/01/2015 6:46:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fragments of the world's oldest Koran, found in Birmingham last month, may predate the Prophet Muhammad and could even rewrite the early history of Islam, according to scholars.
The pages, thought to be between 1,448 and 1,371 years old, were discovered bound within the pages of another Koran from the late seventh century at the library of the University of Birmingham.
Written in ink in an early form of Arabic script on parchment made from animal skin, the pages contain parts of the Suras, or chapters, 18 to 20, which may have been written by someone who actually knew the Prophet Muhammad - founder of the Islamic faith.
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Discovery: Fragments of what is believed to be the world's oldest Koran. Several historians have said it could even predate the Prophet Muhammad
The pages were carbon-dated by experts at the University of Oxford, a process which showed the Islamic holy book manuscript could be the oldest Koran in the world.
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Lemme guess. They are going to keep finding fragments that are older and older till they find some older than the books of the bible, right?
Next—Rioting in the streets by upset Muzzies.
So, Mo was a plagiarist?
This will quickly disappear from the news for fear of offending you know who.
Islamold testament.
Nah, won’t matter because it would have to say the same thing as the Bible. They ain’t even close.
Totalitarian Death Cult Alert!
Carbon dating is not too precise. I would tend to believe the “Muzzie” version before I would believe a precise carbon date.
Prophet Muhammad as a little Bill Gates in him?
“Lemme guess. They are going to keep finding fragments that are older and older till they find some older than the books of the bible, right?”
The Vedas, the Upanishads and some of the Sutras are older than the Bible.
Age does not mean that much
Oops
This headline is misleading. The carbon dating has a wide range from shortly before Muhammad’s birth to shortly after his death. The Koran was written down very shortly after his death so it’s possible this is one of the very first written Koran’s ever, but less likely it predates Muhammad in my opinion.
The age of the parchment is one thing, the age of the ink another.
Mo Biden!
But seriously, the original text was written by Satan, so...
When you dig into the younger years of Muhammad...his uncle was handling the “kid” and they were traders. This meant that one of the chief features of their occupation...was traveling around. So you got to move into different circles. Few people grasp this angle to the story.
In this period...630AD plus...you’d be surprised how many religions existed in the Middle East....literally hundreds. Mecca? It was a trader’s paradise but it also had a religious fest each year....for various groups to meet up at the Black Rock...as part of the fest.
So, Mohammad and the Uncle traveled around and he had thousands of opportunities to mingle with various religious groups. Eventually, he fell more into the religious angle, than the trader angle. I think you’d say...he was drawn to some answer in life. Eventually, he invented his own religion, using bits and pieces of what he’d picked from various Jewish groups and other religions.
This ‘before-Mohammad’ Koran? It’s a shocker because they had attempted in the period after Mohammad to gather up and destroy all the old copies, and issue out the official Koran. Oddly, this piece survives.
If you were looking for some angle to bring down the entire Islamic religion...you need to find more such editions....all prior to 630AD. One of the best places where such things might be found....is the library of the Vatican. But these guys are so screwed up on inventory....they could spend decades hunting through their archives.
The older the fragments of Scripture get, such as the discovery of the Dead sea Scrolls, the more both Christian and Jewish Scholars rejoice, as the older syntax and wording validate the texts that we use to this very day. The intact Isaiah Scroll is a magnificent witness to this fact.
However, when older fragments of the Q’oran are discovered, it throws islamic scholars into a tizzy, because it shows the plagiarism, variations, revisions, and downright silliness of their “holy” book.
Muslims destroyed a lot of their own history to ensure the account of their history is pleasing.
The parchment could actually predate Muhammad but not have been written on until after Muhammad.
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