'Oldest' Koran found in Birmingham - BBC News

you're looking at one of the oldest fragments of the Koran ever discovered it's written on parchment most likely made from sheep or goat skin and it's been dated by experts as being more than 1,300 years old and that makes it among the earliest known fragments of the Koran anywhere in the world and it's here in the University of Birmingham this remarkable document had been resting on the shelves of the University Library for decades without anybody realizing just how old it was until a researcher decided to take a closer look the pages were radiocarbon dated to no later than the Year 645 which means the university has found one of the very earliest known examples finding out that we had one of the oldest fragments of the Quran in the in the whole world was fantastically exciting individually and for the University of well as well I mean we were expecting it to be early but we did not I think in her wildest dreams expect that it would roughly correlate to the lifespan of the Prophet Muhammad which makes it an incredibly early quranic fragment the manuscript had been stored here in a collection of Middle East's and documents brought to Birmingham in the 1920s academics here say that this discovery goes back to the earliest years of Islam the person who actually wrote it may well have known the Prophet Muhammad he would have seen him probably he would maybe have heard him preach he may have known him personally and that really is quite a thought to conjure with Birmingham has one of the country's biggest Muslim communities and they have welcomed having such a treasure in their city when I saw these bridges I was very much moved and there were tears of joy and emotions in my eyes and I am quite sure that even the people from all over UK would come here to Birmingham to just have a glimpse of these pages people will love this mismaloya for ahim is I cannot get away wow this is an exceptionally rare valuable discovery and the University says it will be put on public display it has no intention of letting these pages from world history leave Birmingham Shawn Kirkland BBC news

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Length: 2min 17sec (137 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2015