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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Standard belief is Caliph Utman ordered the confiscation of all Korans. had a new copy rewritten to HIS specifications and had them distributed to the Imans. The old copies were then destroyed.
Anyone caught with an older copy were put to death.
Off with the head is not new.
The mussies will riot over this, true or not.
Indeed....John the Baptist can confirm that.
Suddenly the left, which has long favored carbon dating, finds serious flaws in the scientific method of determining the age of an artifact.
man . . to think the oldest Koranic manuscript was found in Alabama!
A couple of important questions remain: is it big enough for target practice or soft enough for use in the loo?
Mad Mo, the plagiarist pedofile.
It’s common for parchment to be reused. It’s called a palimpsest, like the Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus.
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