New information surrounding the oldest discovered written version of the Quran, the Islamic holy text, has led some scholars to believe it was compiled for Egypt\u2019s first mosque.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the most important discovery ever for the Muslim world,\u201d declared Jamal bin Huwareib, managing director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, in a BBC News report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The story concerns 1,370-year-old fragments of the world\u2019s oldest Quran uncovered by the University of Birmingham in the U.K. earlier this year, which made international news.<\/p>\n
Researchers like Huwareib are now claiming there is evidence that the written work was commissioned by Abu Bakr, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, for Egypt\u2019s oldest mosque, the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Fustat.<\/p>\n
The BBC report noted that academics were able to determine that the Birmingham manuscript is an exact match of other Quran fragments held at the National Library of France, which are known to have been kept at the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As.<\/p>\n
There has been some dispute over the exact dating of the Birmingham fragments, however, with some British scholars suggesting that the written work actually predates the founding of Islam by Muhammad.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Quran\u2019s genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from Heaven,\u201d Keith Small of Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Library said back in August.<\/p>\n
Mustafa Shah of the University of London\u2019s School of Oriental and African Studies disputed the allegation, however.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anything, the manuscript has consolidated traditional accounts of the Quran\u2019s origins,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n
Radiocarbon testing is placing the date of the manuscript somewhere between 568 and 645, which leaves the question up for debate \u2013 as the recorded death of Muhammad is in 632.<\/p>\n
David Thomas, Birmingham University\u2019s professor of Christianity and Islam, suggested it is possible the writer of the oldest Quran might have known the Islamic prophet.<\/p>\n
Huwareib, who has visited Birmingham to examine the manuscript, said that he believes Abu Bakr commissioned the Quran that the fragments belong to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis version, this collection, this manuscript is the root of Islam, it\u2019s the root of the Quran,\u201d he said. \u201cThis will be a revolution in studying Islam.\u201d\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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