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Carbon dating suggests ‘world’s oldest’ Koran could be older than the Prophet Muhammad
Scholars believe a copy of the Koran held in England may be even older than the Prophet Muhammad. Carbon dating of a fragment from a Koran stored at a Birmingham library suggests that the book was produced between 568 and 645 A.D., said scientists at the University of Oxford, but Islamic scholars generally believe Muhammad lived between 570 and 632 A.D.
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I don't even see why anyone would dispute these findings then, since old parchment was valuable and sometimes reused. If they carbon-dated the ink, I bet it would show a different age. Nobody should be up in arms about Muhammad's timeline until the ink is verified.
Exactly. In addition, if the parchment wasn't locally produced, it could've taken years and years for it to reach the scribe who used it. There were no major writing areas in that region during that time, which makes it likely that it was imported.
There really is no there there. The time frame for the parchment spans the entire lifetime of Muhammad. So it "could be older," but just as likely it "could be not older."