Written in ink, the passages – which contain parts of chapters, or ‘Suras’, 18-20 of the Koran – are penned in an early form of Arabic script known as Hijazi. Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Jibril from 609 AD until his death in 632 AD. David Thomas, professor of Christianity and Islam at Birmingham University, said: 'The radiocarbon dating of the Birmingham Koran folios has yielded a startling result and reveals one of the most surprising secrets of the university’s collections.
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