Qur'an in the House of Manuscript in Sana'a
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This antique Qur'an was recently discovered in the Yemen. It is now lodged in the House of Manuscript in Sana'a. The Carbon-14 tests applied to this Qur'an date it to 645-690 AD with 95 percent accuracy. [1] Carole Hillenbrand
A specialist in Arabic calligraphy and Koranic paleography Gerd-R. Puin, based at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany. Puin has been organizing and oversee the restoration project in looking at the parchment fragments found in this Qur'an. It reveals unconventional verse orderings, minor textual variations, and rare styles of orthography and artistic embellishment. Enticing, too, were the sheets of the scripture written in the rare and early Hijazi Arabic script: pieces of the earliest Korans known to exist, they were also palimpsests -- versions very clearly written over even earlier, washed-off versions. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Carole Hillenbrand, The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 1, p.329
- ^ What is the koran?. Free republic (1991). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
