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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate

Scripture and its sciences Arts of the book

Overview

Qur'anic parchments written in Hijazi script at the University of Birmingham; radiocarbon dating places them between 568 and 645 CE, making them among the oldest known Qur'an leaves. ¹

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· Arabesque· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an

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islam.museum contributors. “Birmingham Quran manuscript”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/mushaf-birmingham/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.