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Al-Quran yang dipercayai tarikh kembali ke zaman Nabi sendiri telah ditemui
oleh University of Birmingham.
Analisis
radiokarbon bertarikh manuskrip kembali kepada antara 568 dan 645 AD,
menjadikannya berusia sekurang-kurangnya 1,370 tahun dan salah satu yang paling
kuno yang wujud.
Halaman
dari teks suci Islam, asalnya ditulis pada kulit biri-biri atau kambing, telah
berada di perpustakaan universiti selama hampir 100 tahun sebelum ditemui dan
dianalisis oleh penyelidik PhD.
Mereka
pada mulanya disimpan dengan satu lagi Quran manuskrip temuan balik ke abad
ke-7.
Koran
fragments found in Birmingham library
‘may date back to Prophet’s life’ (peace
and prayers
Of Allah be upon him) . . .
Fragments
of the Koran believed to date back to the time of the Prophet himself have been
found by the University of Birmingham.
Radiocarbon
analysis dated the manuscript back to between 568 and 645 AD, making it at
least 1,370 years old and one of the most ancient in existence.
Pages
from the holy Muslim text, originally written on the skin of a sheep or goat,
had been in the university library for nearly 100 years before being discovered
and analyzed by a PhD researcher.
Ujian
berikut di Unit kaedah radiokarban Accelerator Oxford University, penyelidik
serpihan manuskrip bertarikh kepada kira-kira era yang sama dengan Nabi
Muhammad, yang secara meluas dipercayai hidup antara 570 dan 632 AD.
Pakar
manuskrip Perpustakaan British Dr Muhammad Isa Waley memanggilnya penemuan
"menarik." Para penyelidik berkata serpihan beberapa bukti yang
paling awal al-Quran yang wujud.
Dokumen
itu adalah sebahagian daripada manuskrip Timur Tengah Mingana Collection universiti.
Pengarah
Universiti Birmingham koleksi khas Susan Worrall berkata: "radiokarbon temuan
telah menyampaikan hasil yang menarik, yang menyumbang dengan ketara kepada
pemahaman kita tentang salinan terawal bertulis daripada Al-Quran. Kami amat
gembira bahawa apa-apa dokumen sejarah yang penting di sini di Birmingham,
bandar yang paling pelbagai budaya di UK."
Profesor
David Thomas, profesor agama Kristian dan Islam, berkata penemuan itu akan
membolehkan penyelidik untuk mengkaji Al-Quran pada tahun-tahun pengasas Islam.
"Temuan
radiokarbon daripada folio Birmingham, Al
Quran telah menghasilkan keputusan yang mengejutkan dan mendedahkan salah satu
rahsia yang paling mengejutkan koleksi Universiti. Mereka juga boleh membawa
kita kembali ke dalam masa beberapa tahun pengasas sebenar Islam.
"Menurut
tradisi Islam, Nabi Muhammad menerima wahyu yang membentuk Al-Quran, kitab suci
Islam, di antara tahun 610 dan 632, tahun kematiannya," katanya.
Following
tests at the Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, researchers dated
the fragments of manuscript to roughly the same era as the Prophet Muhammad,
who is widely believed to have lived between 570 and 632 AD.
British
Library manuscript expert Dr Muhammad Isa Waley called the discovery
“exciting.” Researchers said the fragments were some of the earliest evidence
of the Koran in existence.
The
document is part of the university’s Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern
manuscripts.
University
of Birmingham’s director of special collections Susan Worrall said: “The
radiocarbon dating has delivered an exciting result, which contributes
significantly to our understanding of the earliest written copies of the Koran.
We are thrilled that such an important historical document is here in
Birmingham, the most culturally diverse city in the UK.”
Professor
David Thomas, professor of Christianity and Islam, added that the discovery
would allow researchers to study the Koran during the founding years of Islam.
“The
radiocarbon dating of the Birmingham Koran folios has yielded a startling
result and reveals one of the most surprising secrets of the University’s
collections. They could well take us back to within a few years of the actual
founding of Islam.
“According
to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad received the revelations that form
the Koran, the scripture of Islam, between the years 610 and 632, the year of
his death,” he added.
