Muslim tradition says the prophet received the revelations of the Quran between 610 and 632 — but it wasn’t written down immediately. The first leader of the community after Muhammad’s death ...

The library contains some 200,000 pre-1850 books dating from 1471 and some 4 million manuscripts. The Quran manuscript will be on public display at the university from Oct. 2 to Oct. 25.

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 Muham… ...

An Islamic manuscript, which has been identified as one of the world's oldest fragments of the Quran, is seen at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Courtesy of Cadbury Research Library ...

The Quran manuscript covers two parchment leaves and contains parts of the suras (chapters) 18 through 20, written with ink in an early form of Arabic script called Hijazi.

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 ...

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 and may even have been written by someone who knew ...

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 ...

Two Quran fragments unknowingly held since 1936 in the University of Birmingham’s manuscript collection have been definitively dated to the era of Mohammed’s life or a little later.

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 ...

Three Quran manuscripts that were published during the era of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1908) have been found in a mosque located in Palestine's historical town of Tayibe.