Category: Qur'an Manuscripts

  • P. Michaelides no 32

    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 sev­enth…

  • Ear­ly Preser­va­tion & Trans­mis­sion Of The Qur’an

    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 records…