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  • Very Early Koran digitised
     OP - November 18, 2014, 05:38 AM
    http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/17/early-copy-quran-discovered/

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    Scholars at the Coranica Project, part of the University of Tübingen, examined a manuscript written in Kufic script, one of the oldest forms of Arabic writing. Using carbon-14 dating on three samples of the manuscript parchment, the researchers concluded that it was more than 95 percent likely to have originated in the period 649-675 AD.

    The manuscript is one of more than 20 fragments of Kufic script held by the Tübingen University Library. This particular item was donated to the university in the 19th century.

    The entire manuscript has already been digitized and can be viewed here.

    The Coranica project, a collaboration between the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Paris and the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and France’s Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). The project investigates the Quran in the context of its historical background using documents such as manuscripts and information derived from archaeological excavations. Click here to visit their website.

    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


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  • Very Early Koran digitised
     Reply #1 - November 18, 2014, 07:54 AM
    This should be stickied along with the other articles.
    No free mixing of the sexes is permitted on these forums or via PM or the various chat groups that are operating.

    Women must write modestly and all men must lower their case.

    http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?425649-Have-some-Hayaa-%28modesty-shame%29-people!
  • Very Early Koran digitised
     Reply #2 - November 18, 2014, 10:33 PM
    The writing is really hard to read. I can't make sense of it.

    Have they commented on whether it is the same as the version of the Quran used today?
  • Very Early Koran digitised
     Reply #3 - November 19, 2014, 12:20 AM
    Mods, p;lease feel free to move this thread
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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