<P> Professor Süleyman Berk of the faculty of Islamic studies at Yalova University has noted the strong similarity between the script of the Birmingham leaves and those of a number of Hijazi Qurans in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum ; which were brought to Istanbul from the Great Mosque of Damascus following a fire in 1893 . Professor Berk recalls that these manuscripts had been intensively researched in association with an exhibition on the history of the Quran , The Quran in its 1,400 th Year held in Istanbul in 2010 , and the findings published by François Déroche as Qur'ans of the Umayyads in 2013 . In that study , the Paris Quran , BnF Arabe 328 ( c ) , is compared with Qurans in Istanbul , and concluded as having been written `` around the end of the seventh century and the beginning of the eighth century . '' </P>
<P> Professor Süleyman Berk of the faculty of Islamic studies at Yalova University has noted the strong similarity between the script of the Birmingham leaves and those of a number of Hijazi Qurans in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum ; which were brought to Istanbul from the Great Mosque of Damascus following a fire in 1893 . Professor Berk recalls that these manuscripts had been intensively researched in association with an exhibition on the history of the Quran , The Quran in its 1,400 th Year held in Istanbul in 2010 , and the findings published by François Déroche as Qur'ans of the Umayyads in 2013 . In that study , the Paris Quran , BnF Arabe 328 ( c ) , is compared with Qurans in Istanbul , and concluded as having been written `` around the end of the seventh century and the beginning of the eighth century . '' </P>
where is the oldest copy of the holy quran preserved
where is the oldest copy of the holy quran preserved
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum