While it is the belief of many Muslims that the Quran has been perfectly preserved, the process of printing has introduced errors.
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A traditional Muslim account of how Uthman collected the Quran. Taken from Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami, The History of the Quranic Text from Revelation to Compilation.
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The Sana Quran palimpsest is a significant find because it is one of the oldest extant Quran manuscripts; it is different from the standard Quran disseminated by Uthman; and it is manuscript evidence of a different textual tradition from Uthman.
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The first complete Arabic Quran said to have been printed by movable type appeared in Venice in 1537-8. It was thought to have been completely lost until a copy showed up in the 1980s, displaying a very faulty text.
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The Cairo edition of the Arabic Quran is based on readings that in a "small number of cases" contradict earlier sources and whose text is "often at odds with manuscript evidence."
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