A Quran manuscript held at the University of Birmingham represents one of the oldest pieces of textual evidence of the Islamic holy book, according to radiocarbon analyses done by scientists.

A Quran manuscript has been carbon dated to close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), making it one of the oldest in the world, a British university said on Wednesday. The two leaves of ...

How it all began The copy of the Holy Quran was found in Birmingham last ... 1,370 years old and were believed to be held in Egypt's oldest mosque, the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As in Fustat city.