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Re:Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad by news_1776 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:39AM (#10152633)
This is highly unlikely as the parchment contains diacritical marks which were not introduced until 4 caliphs/leaders after the Prophet who had all already died/been killed. This has been mentioned by many critics as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#history

This seems more like a means to incite Muslims rather than science.

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Re:Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad by chipuni on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:50AM (#10152701)
Not JUST the diacritical marks. The writing style looks like Nashk, which came much MUCH later than the Koran.
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Re:Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad by hackuser on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:02AM (#10152769)
That's very interesting. Do you happen to know a good place to read about that (i.e., more reliable than Wikipedia)?
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Re:Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad by thom_nic on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:42AM (#10152649)
FTA:

> Article originally appeared on FoxNews.com.

yup :)

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