Category: Qur’an Manuscripts

The followingAdolf Grohmann, The Problem of Dating Early Qur’an, in Der Islam 33 (1958), heft 3, pp. 222-226. is a detailed examination of a very early Qur’anic papyrus. Please note the conclusion of the investigator at the end of this article, according to which this papyrus belongs to the first century of the Hijra or…

The following shows the text of the first Sura’ of the Qur’an inscribed on the shoulder blade of a camel, preserved in the Princeton University Library.Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, Vol. II (Leiden: Brill, 2002) We know that the first steps for the preservation of the Qur’an were taken in the lifetime of the Prophet. Tradition…