Could this Qur'an fragment be older than Muhammad?

(The Christian Science Monitor) Researchers from the University of Oxford have said that recently discovered fragments from the oldest Qur’an appear to predate the founding of Islam, the Times of London reports. 

"This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Qur’an's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven," Keith Small, a researcher at the University of Oxford, told the Times.

In July, England's Birmingham University unveiled parts of the world's oldest fragments of the Qur’an, with radiocarbon dating projecting the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old.