{"id":7749,"date":"2015-10-07T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/tears-of-joy\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:33:03","slug":"tears-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/tears-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tickets can now be booked for the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript exhibition<\/h3>\n

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\nTickets are now available for the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript exhibition, taking place at the University of Birmingham from 2\u201325 October 2015.<\/p>\n


\nThe Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript, held at the University of Birmingham\u2019s Cadbury Research Library, has been radiocarbon dated to the period 568\u2013645 CE with 95.4% accuracy, placing it among the oldest Qur\u2019an manuscripts in the world.<\/p>\n


\nThe exhibition will be held in the Bramall Music Building at the University of Birmingham\u2019s Edgbaston campus.<\/p>\n


\nThere is no charge for tickets. However, a \u00a33.00 booking fee will apply to cover the administration costs associated with the ticketing process.<\/p>\n


\nTime slots will be allocated to view the manuscript, and a limited number of tickets are available. Booking is essential.<\/p>\n


\nThe University of Birmingham announced in July that radiocarbon analysis of the parchment had placed the four-page Qur\u2019an manuscript close to the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad. Researchers concluded that the manuscript was among the earliest written textual evidence of the Islamic holy book known to survive. <\/p>\n


\nThe manuscript is part of the University\u2019s Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts, held in the Cadbury Research Library.<\/p>\n


\nSusan Worrall, Director of Special Collections at the University of Birmingham, said: \u2018The announcement of our radiocarbon dating result generated huge excitement and an overwhelmingly positive response around the world.<\/p>\n


\n\u2018The manuscript is a global treasure, and we hope people will enjoy being able to view such an important document here at the University of Birmingham.\u2019<\/p>\n


\nResponding to suggestions that the dating of the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript could have implications for traditional accounts of the early history of Islam, Professor David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham, said: \u2018The result of the radiocarbon dating of the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript is tremendously exciting and has clearly stimulated wider academic debate. However, at this stage we cannot draw any conclusions beyond the fact that the manuscript appears to be among the oldest in the world.\u2019<\/p>\n


\nTickets can be booked online at: www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/quran-manuscript \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tickets can now be booked for the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript exhibition Tickets are now available for the Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript exhibition, taking place at the University of Birmingham from 2\u201325 October 2015. The Birmingham Qur\u2019an manuscript, held at the University of Birmingham\u2019s Cadbury Research Library, has been radiocarbon dated to the period 568\u2013645 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}