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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/02/quran-verses-dating-from-seventh-century-go-on-view-in-birminghamPublished by: THE GUARDIAN on 2 Oct 2015
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Some of the earliest surviving pages of the Qur’an in the world were discovered by an Italian scholar in a volume in the Birmingham university library The Birmingham Qur’an manuscript exhibition officially opens to the public on Friday, but many of the local Muslim community have already beeninvited in to see the manuscript, on display in a quiet room under the dome of the Birmingham university’s music building. Many were overwhelmed by the experience.
“Thank God I can attend this exhibition in person,” one visitor wrote in a message left on the noticeboard in the exhibition room. “Please keep struggling to find another piece of the whole Qur’an,” wrote another.
The scholar who identified some of the earliest surviving verses of the Qur’an in the world – two leaves of parchment which may have been made in the seventh century in the lifetime of the prophet Muhammad – in a volume in Birmingham university library, is slightly baffled by the emotional reaction of [...]
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