Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Birmingham Quran manuscript

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Original – Two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript in the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts of the University of Birmingham's Cadbury Research Library were discovered in 2015 as being dated between 568 and 645, making it one of the oldest Quran manuscripts to have survived.
Reason
This unique, important document is possibly the oldest manuscript of Quran discovered ever and is said to prove that the current versions are not changed.
Articles in which this image appears
Quran; Birmingham Quran manuscript
FP category for this image
Religion and mythology
Creator
Anonymous

Promoted File:Birmingham Quran manuscript.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:36, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]