A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world, thanks to modern scientific testing.
Radiocarbon analysis dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between 568 and 645 AD with 95.4 per cent accuracy. The test was carried out in a laboratory at the University of Oxford. The result places the leaves close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who lived between 570 and 632 AD.
