Sanaa palimpsest
رقوق صنعاء (النص السفلي)
Parchment palimpsest found in 1972 in the Great Mosque of Sanaa; its lower Qur'anic layer is among the oldest surviving mushaf text, with variants studied academically.
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Parchments of Sana'a discovered in 1972 in the Great Mosque; they carry a lower Qur'anic text, one of the oldest surviving remnants of Qur'an copies, with variations of order and wording that academic research studies. 1
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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
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islam.museum contributors. “Sanaa palimpsest”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/ruquq-sanaa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.