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Omani Army, UK Forces Hold Largest Joint Exercise

The Armed Forces of the Sultan and other military and security forces in the Sultanate of Oman, with the participation of more than 70 thousand elements of the Sultanate began the implementation of the largest military training in its history.

Saudi King Puts Nephews under House Arrest

King Salman bin Abdul Aziz imposed the house arrest on the sons of his brother Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, and explained that the punishment came despite their condemnation of the position of their father, who condemned the king and his crown prince and hold them responsible for what is happening in Yemen.

Old manuscripts of the Quran

Most of the early original Qur"an manuscripts, complete or in sizeable fragments, that are still available to us now, are not earlier than the second century after the Hijra. The earliest copy, which was exhibited in the British Museum during the 1976 World of Islam Festival, dated from the late second century. [Lings, M. and Y. H. Safadi: The Qur"an, London, 1976, No. 1A. However, there are also a number of odd fragments of Qur"anic papyri available, which date from the first century. [Grohmann, A.: Die Entstehung des Koran und die altesten Koran-Handschriften", in: Bustan, 1961, pp. 33-8.]There is a copy of the Qur"an in the Egyptian National Library on parchment made from gazelle skin, which has been dated 68 Hijra (688 A.D.), i.e. 58 years after the Prophet"s death.

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