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A fact from Birmingham Quran manuscript appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 August 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the newly discovered Birmingham Quran manuscript (pictured) comprises fragments of an ancient Quran that may date to near Muhammad's lifetime?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Birmingham Quran manuscript.

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Birmingham Quran manuscript was nominated as a Philosophy and religion good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (October 12, 2015). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Radiocarbon date

"which corresponds with 95.4% confidence to the calendar years CE 568–645 when calibrated". I just want to note that the new calibration curve INTCAL20 released this year changes the range a little: CE 577–646. The most likely ranges (in total 68.3%) are 597–611 and 616–641. I'm not adding this as it can be considered OR until it is published. Zero^talk 01:58, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Let me figure a way to add this. TrangaBellam (talk) 13:09, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oldest?

Dating only to 568, how is this the oldest in the world? The Dead Sea Scrolls are at least 500 years older. Rosengarten Zu Worms (talk) 11:12, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have the Quran confused with the Bible. Zero^talk 11:57, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hahaha typical biased

t alif (ألف). Arabic script at the time tended to not write out the silent alif.for non arabic speakers to read easier Allah hu Akbar you can stop Islam 82.20.80.153 (talk) 18:43, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the contents

The contents are important. This manuscript contains what is possibly the earliest attestation of full basmala. What do the sections talk about? Simply referring to ayat doesn’t help because of the need to go to non-Wikipedia sources to find out.74.96.7.2 (talk) 23:51, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]