The manuscript is written with ink in an early form of Arabic script known as Hijazi. The manuscript has long been part of the university’s Cadbury Research Library.

For years, the two parchment leaves covered in an elegant early form of Arabic script were misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript dating from the late seventh century. Now, with the ...

The manuscript consists of two parchment leaves and contains parts of the suras, or chapters, 18 to 20 written in an early form of Arabic known as Hijazi. Radiocarbon analysis dated the parchment ...

LONDON-- The University of Birmingham said Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the ...

The Quran manuscript covers two parchment leaves and contains parts of the suras (chapters) 18 through 20, written with ink in an early form of Arabic script called Hijazi.

Recent scholarly work on early manuscript fragments of the Quran such as those discovered in Sana’a, Yemen in 1972 gave us portions of Quranic text carbon-dated to a few years after the Quran ...

A rare and ancient copy of the Quran will soon be available for public viewing at the Sharjah book fair in the United Arab Emirates. The 1,350-year-old document is a copy of an original manuscript ...

New exhibit features more than 60 manuscripts of and about the Quran, created over more than 1,000 years across the Islamic world. ... from the late 12th to early 13th century," Farhad said.. ...

A British university disclosed Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the Prophet Muham… ...

For years, the two parchment leaves covered in an elegant early form of Arabic script were misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript dating from the late seventh century. Now, with the ...