c. 650 AD
Standardization of the muṣḥaf attributed to ʿUthmān
Religion · Islam · Early Islam · Qurʾān and transmission
Islamic tradition credits the third caliph with promulgating a uniform consonantal skeleton. “c. 650” is not the archaeological date of every surviving manuscript.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- ora.ox.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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