Marijn Van Putten was paid from a grant of 2 Million Euros by the European Research Council, part of the European Union, to linguistically investigate the earliest Qur’an manuscripts.
Marijn van Putten, Ph.D. (2013), Leiden University, is a historical linguist specializing in the linguistic history of Arabic, Berber and Semitic. In addition to this, his research focuses on the textual history of the Quran and the early history of the Quranic reading traditions.
https://youtu.be/BwZ7S2C4Mtw
