British university says its Koran manuscript is among world's oldest

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A British university said on Wednesday that fragments of a Koran manuscript found in its library were from one of the oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text in the world, possibly written by someone who might have known Prophet Mohammad. Radiocarbon dating indicated that the parchment folios held by the University of Birmingham in central England were at least 1,370 years old, which would make them one of the earliest written forms of the Islamic holy book in existence. "They could well take us back to within a few years of the actual founding of Islam," said David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam at the university. Read More http://ift.tt/1MjUDVg

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