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 ...

Two pages of an ancient Koran have been discovered hiding ... 18 to 20 and closely resembles the text of the Koran read today. The similarity supports the view, Thomas said, that the Koran ...

Two Quran fragments unknowingly held since ... Yet the widespread use of the method for dating ancient and medieval texts and artifacts bears witness to its importance as a powerful tool for ...

A 1,500-year-old parchment could be one of the oldest known copies ... bound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript that dated to the late 7th century. That text was kept in the University ...

Joseph Hoffmann points out that the thing that tipped off Fedeli — the fact that the older Quran seemed different from the newer version — might also be a sign that this ancient text isn't ...

British scholars have suggested that fragments of the world's oldest known Koran ... traditional accounts of the Koran's origins." The first known formal text of the Koran was not assembled ...

a manuscript was found in Birmingham which is now said to be the oldest known Quran text. Muslims all around the world believe the Quran to be the literal word of God and it has chapters or ...

Journalist Carla Power has been studying the Koran. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks ... People are going back to these basic texts. There's an extraordinarily important Islamic feminist movement ...

The Blue Qur'an is a rare copy of the Quran—the central religious ... to be one of the world's most important ancient manuscripts. Pictured is hidden text from a page of the Blue Qur'an captured ...