421 | The Tubingen Manuscript of the Quran with Dr. Jay Smith

This manuscript was found in Damascus and was moved to
Germany.  It looks a lot like the upper layer of the Sana
manuscript.  There are three reasons why this manuscript is
8th century and not 7th century: 1. The dots , the circles ,and
the verse markings suggests that the text is a later text. 
2. .  The page layout and illuminations parallels the 8th
century manuscripts.  3.  The ornamentations suggests
Abd Al Malik and Al Hajjag new distinctive Islamic Arabic
manuscripts.  The question is if this text came from Mecca
and Medina, what was happening there? Scholars agree that in the
7th century those two cities where very isolated and
insignificant.


 


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