While I would actually like this to be true (just to see how it would affect Muslim beliefs), I don&#x27;t think it is.  But what surprises me more than anything else is how a legitimate historian can come to the conclusion that this finding changes in any way what we know already, especially since the same person admits that the radiocarbon dating only applies to the ink and not the parchment.<p>The quotes from Tom Small are unremarkable considering his previous publications and statements about Islam.