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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Old manuscripts at Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Shadow of tourists riding camels in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Two men dressing Tuareg clothing walking in Timkuktu, in Mali.
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  • Tuareg man with camel in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Tuareg men in the desert around Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Tuareg nomad with Subha beads in his hands, in a desert camp around Timbuktu in Mali.
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  • Tuareg family in a nomad camp in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Tuareg men sit in the desert sand with camels.
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  • A boy in a desert dune looking at Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Tuareg man with camels in the desert around Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • A man stands near Sankoré Mosque, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Woman passing in front of Sankoré Mosque, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A woman walking on a street in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A communal oven in a street in Timkuktu, Mali.
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  • Young men standing in front of the house were French explorer René Caillié stayed in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Donkey passes in front of the house were French explorer René Caillié stayed in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A man dressing Tuareg  clothes pointing near Djingareyber Mosque in Timkuktu, Mali.
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  • A tuareg guide with shadow of tourists riding camels in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Man and boy with camels in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Tuareg man and boy with camel in the desert around Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A man wearing tuareg clothing talks on the phone in front of Sankoré Mosque, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Two Tuareg men greeting in front of Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Tuareg man passes by Sankoré Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Woman passes in front of Alexander Gordon Laing's house  in Timbuktu, Mali. Gordon Laing was a british explorer and the first european to reach Timbuktu from the north7south route through Sahara desert.
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  • Men and boy with camels in the desert around Timbuktu, in Mali.
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  • Children playing by Sankoré Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A man stands near Sankoré Mosque, in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • A woman walking on a street in Timbuktu, Mali.
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  • Women wearing colorful clothing on a street  in Timbuktu, Mali,
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  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
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A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
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A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
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A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
___<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
___<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Alba Fedeli, who was studying items in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts for her PhD thesis Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham, found the two leave. <br />
___<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections (Cadbury Research Library), at the University of Birmingham.<br />
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<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections (Cadbury Research Library), at the University of Birmingham.<br />
___<br />
<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections (Cadbury Research Library), at the University of Birmingham.<br />
___<br />
<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections (Cadbury Research Library), at the University of Birmingham.<br />
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<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Susan Worrall, Director of Special Collections (Cadbury Research Library), at the University of Birmingham.<br />
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<br />
A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods.<br />
<br />
Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% 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 is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.<br />
<br />
The Qur’an manuscript will be on public display at the University of Birmingham from Friday 2 October until Sunday 25 October and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016.
    Oldest Koran Birmingham-Attilio Fium...jpg
  • Chinguetti, a lost village in the Adrar region, once an important home of Muslim scholars and Madrassas, today is famous for it's private libraries with ancient arab manuscripts from medicine to religion, some dating back to the 9th century.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • The Friday mosque is supposedly dated of the 13/14th century and the squared minaret is said to be the 2nd oldest in use in the world. Chinguetti, a medieval trading center founded in the 13th century, now home of some libraries full of ancient arab manuscripts
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • Ancient arab manuscripts part of  the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library, in Chinguetti.
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  • Ancient arab manuscripts part of  the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library, in Chinguetti.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • Ancient arab manuscripts part of  the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library, in Chinguetti.
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  • a local guide shows some of old tablets part of the 'Ahmed al Mahmoud fondation' library in Chuinguetti. Some of the manuscripts date back to the 9th century up to the 20th.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi, italian professor and writer, sitting at his working desk in his home in Lisbon, holding the manuscript of his next book.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi, italian professor and writer, sitting at his working desk in his home in Lisbon, holding the manuscript of his next book.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi, italian professor and writer, sitting at his working desk in his home in Lisbon, holding the manuscript of his next book.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi, italian professor and writer, sitting at his working desk in his home in Lisbon, holding the manuscript of his next book.
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