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 Prophet ...

The recently radiocarbon dated copy of the 7th-century Qur'an at the University of Birmingham. A 1,500-year-old parchment could be one of the oldest known copies of the Quran, possibly dating back to ...

A Quran manuscript long held by a British university is now believed to be among the world's oldest, written close to the time of the prophet Mohammed. Radiocarbon testing on the document found 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 help ...

One of ‘world’s oldest’ Quran manuscripts found in U.K. Fragments of a Quran manuscript found in a British university library are from one of the world’s oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham in England said Wednesday that they had discovered part of what is likely one of the world’s oldest manuscripts of the Quran. The fragment is said to be at ...

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 ...

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, written ...

A 1,500-year-old parchment could be one of the oldest known copies of the Quran, possibly dating back to a time that overlapped with the life of the Prophet Muhammad, according to researchers who ...