The Oldest Surviving Copies of the Qur’an

An early copy of the Qur'an held in the Topkaki Museum in the Turkey.

The oldest known surviving copies of the Quran are written in the Hijazi script, which was used in the Arabian Peninsula during the 7th century AD. The oldest of these copies date back to the 8th and 9th centuries AD. One of the oldest known copies of the Quran is the Sana’a manuscript, which is … Read more