'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University say news

'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University say news

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What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham.Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century.

The tests, carried out by the Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, showed that the fragments, written on sheep or goat skin, were among the very oldest surviving texts of the Koran. These tests provide a range of dates, showing that, with a probability of more than 95%, the parchment was from between 568 and 645. "They could well take us back to within a few years of the actual founding of Islam," said David Thomas, the university's professor of Christianity and Islam.

"According to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad received the revelations that form the Koran, the scripture of Islam, between the years 610 and 632, the year of his death."

well that is what News says... Suppose radio carbon dating experiment is correct with in error bars of 10/20 years.... WOULD THAT MAKE THAT TEXT " WORD OF ALLAH/GOD?" worse is it is NOT the whole book we read but bits and pieces here and there in some old Arabic script..

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Topic: 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University say news

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