Talk:Birmingham Quran manuscript

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)

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)

Need to understand dating
This article states, “They determined the radiocarbon date of the parchment to be 1465±21 years BP (before 1950), which corresponds with 95.4% confidence to the calendar years CE 568–645 when calibrated.”

Im quite a bit confused here and would appreciate clarification. If the radiocarbon is dating parchment to 1465 years BP (before 1950, + or - 21 years), that would give the parchment a date of 485CE (1950-1465 = 485CE, NOT 568), + or - 21 years.

Could someone help me out? What am I missing?? D2west26 (talk) 00:53, 16 February 2024 (UTC)


 * The "radiocarbon date" is determined solely by the carbon isotope ratio in the sample. In order to determine an actual range of years, it has to be adjusted by the known variations in the atmospheric isotope ratio in past years. This is explained at Radiocarbon calibration. Zerotalk 04:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)