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 MethodologyFiguresNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionMichael Josef Marx2 Qurʾān Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Letters from the 7th to the 10th CenturiesDaniel Potthast3 Qurʾān Quotations in Papyrus Legal DocumentsLeonora Sonego4 Qurʾānic Quotations in Arabic Papyrus AmuletsUrsula Bsees5 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Early Islamic Documents: Background and ProspectsEva Mira Youssef-Grob6 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qurʾān ManuscriptsMichael Josef Marx and Tobias J. JochamGeneral BibliographyIndex