Years ago, Birmingham-Southern College professor emeritus Guy Hubbs was working in the campus library, spending some of his day with the North Alabama Methodist Conference archives. That’s when ...

(Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham) Social Sharing As It Happens 5:52 Birmingham Muslims rejoice after oldest Qur'an fragments discovered at U.K. library ...

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 ...

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Fragments of world’s oldest Koran found in Birmingham University library. Richard Hartley-Parkinson Published Jul 22, 2015, 9:37am | Updated Dec 11, 2019, 11:03am.

HISTORIC books, maps and letters worth £200,000 were stolen from Birmingham University. The documents, which have since been recovered, were taken from a secure collections department at the ...

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An Islamic manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been identified as one of the world's oldest fragments of the Koran. Radiocarbon analysis has dated the now "globally significant ...

Two pieces of parchment written on in ink were found bound with pages of another younger copy of the Koran in the University of Birmingham's library, but were discovered to be up to 1,448 years old.