Keith Small, of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, cautioned that carbon dating was done only on the Koran’s parchment and not its ink, but he said the dates were probably accurate.
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.
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.