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Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
and found in a Uni in Birmingham : clic to enlarge
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Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
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.
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
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. 8)
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
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.
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
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Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
The manuscript, written in "Hijazi script", an early form of written Arabic,
becomes one of the oldest known fragments of the Koran.
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
Dr Waley, curator for such manuscripts at the British Library, said
"these two folios, in a beautiful and surprisingly legible Hijazi hand,
almost certainly date from the time of the first three caliphs".
The first three caliphs were leaders in the Muslim community
between about 632 and 656.
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-23-2015
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Re: Written on Goat skin - Watooka - 12-24-2015
Aren't muslims supposed to destroy old copies of the quran?
Re: Written on Goat skin - ketchim - 12-24-2015
Only if the Goat skin was not Halal ....
ask your British Librarians !
Methink carbon dating will make that clear ::LOL::