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studies, the manuscript probably dates from the 8th or 9th century. Radiocarbon dating showed a 95.4% probability of a date between 775 and 995. However, one of the folios from another manuscript (held in the
Religious Administration of Muslims in Tashkent) was dated to between 595 and 855 A.D. with
794:). It attracted the attention of Orientalists and eventually a facsimile edition was published in Saint-Petersburg in 1905. The 50 copies soon became rarities. The first thorough description and dating of the manuscript was undertaken by the Russian Orientalist Shebunin in 1891.
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The manuscript is incomplete: it begins in the middle of verse 7 of the second sura and ends at Surah 43:10. The manuscript has between eight and twelve lines to the page and, showing its antiquity, the text is devoid of
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The copy of the Quran is traditionally considered to be one of a group commissioned by the third caliph Uthman. According to
Islamic tradition, in 651, 19 years after the death of the Islamic Prophet,
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master, as a gift after he had cured the ruler. The Quran remained in the Khoja Ahrar Mosque of
Samarkand for the next four centuries.
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