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Author Insight
finding the Qur'an
What is the truth about the original Qurans? They were hand written from about 568 AD to 645 AD when the prophet died. He was illiterate and learned men around him wrote his visions. The most famous are in the Topkapi manuscript in Istanbul, the Smarkand Kufi Quran in Tashkent, and one believed to be destroyed in an 1893 fire at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Today others are in Sanaa, Yemen, Turingen, Germany (only a fragment), the Codex Pariisiun, parts in France, Russia, the Vatican, and London, and in Birmingham ,Uk (2 chapters from an older manuscript.
Book Excerpt
The Bystander
Gunvar put the package on a rock and slowly began to peel back the layers of wrapping paper. Finally, in a cracked and faded brown leather case that broke apart as he opened it, came the book. The cover was crumbling, but inside they could see pages and what looked like Arabic writing.
For a moment everyone was silent, looking at a book over 1400 years old that dated to the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
“The book,” said Hassa. She translated the name on the Qur’an. “This is the Damascus book, one of three Qur’ans that were written at the time the prophet died.”
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