In support of this conclusion, the esteemed professor points to the Sana’a palimpsest ... not the script. The Quran then, in essence, is not a text found in a ‘true’ manuscript lying ...

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 ...

LONDON — 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 ...

Government centre has about 16,000 manuscripts and 20,000 parchments of the Quran This picture shows experts repairing manuscripts at a government-run restoration centre in Sana’a on Monday.

Fragments of the Quran held by the UK’s Birmingham University have been found to be among the oldest in the world. Following radiocarbon analysis by the University of Oxford, the manuscripts ...

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 ...

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 ...