Interesting reading: The 'Birmingham Koran' fragment that could shake Islam after carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than the Prophet Muhammad
It would really suck to have parts of something Muhammad was divinely inspired to create show up at a time which preceded him! Especially for his followers, who slaughtered some say 290 million people out of respect of.
"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."
Given that Muslims believe in the Koran as being an eternal entity, I’m surprised they have difficulty with the idea that a copy of it might have existed prior to the “official” account of it being written down. No doubt fingerprints of Jews are somewhere to be found.