Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries

And The Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qurʾāns

Andreas Kaplony, Michael Marx (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

263 Seiten

2019 | Approx. 227 pp., 56 fc illus.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-35891-1 (ISBN)

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Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents is the first book on Qurʾān quotations in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. It also explores how radiocarbon can be used for the dating of documents and Qurʾānic manuscripts.

Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an in-depth exploration of the radiocarbon dating of documents and Qurʾānic manuscripts.

Contributors: Ursula Bsees; Tobias J. Jocham; Andreas Kaplony; Michael Josef Marx, Daniel Potthast; Leonora Sonego; Eva Mira Youssef-Grob.

Andreas Kaplony, Ph.D. (1994), Habilitation (2001) is Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, including The Ḥaram of Jerusalem (2002), The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road (2008, ed. with Philippe Forêt), and Fünfundzwanzig arabische Dokumente aus dem Rotmeer-Hafen al-Quṣayr al-Qadīm (7./13. Jahrhundert) (2014). Michael Marx (born 1971) studied Arabic, Islamic Studies, Semitic and General Linguistics in Berlin, Bonn, Paris and Teheran. Since 2007 he is director of the "Corpus Coranicum" project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

The Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben: Preliminary Remarks on Methodology
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Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction
Michael Josef Marx

2 Qurʾān Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Letters from the 7th to the 10th Centuries
Daniel Potthast

3 Qurʾān Quotations in Papyrus Legal Documents
Leonora Sonego

4 Qurʾānic Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Amulets
Ursula Bsees

5 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Early Islamic Documents: Background and Prospects
Eva Mira Youssef-Grob

6 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qurʾān Manuscripts
Michael Josef Marx and Tobias J. Jocham

General Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Documenta Coranica ; 2
Zusatzinfo	56 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-35891-9 / 9004358919
ISBN-13	978-90-04-35891-1 / 9789004358911
Zustand	Neuware