Michael Marx

Germany · Islamic studies scholar, Corpus Coranicum

Michael Josef Marx is an Islamic studies scholar attached to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where he works on the Corpus Coranicum research project. The project assembles manuscript evidence, variant readings and contemporary texts relevant to the Qur’an’s emergence. His published work combines edited volumes on the Qur’anic milieu with studies applying radiocarbon dating to early parchment Qur’an fragments. He also contributes to digital catalogues of Qur’an manuscripts.

This scholar is also listed in the Quran Hub’s manuscript scholars catalogue. The list of works here is compiled from publisher, library and university pages and is not exhaustive; check details against the publisher’s record before citing.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Biography sources: bbaw.academia.edu · bbaw.de

Works

Books 2

COLLECTION 2010 · English · Brill, Leiden (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an 6)

The Qur'an in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur'anic Milieu (ed. with Angelika Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai)

A multi-author volume placing the Qur'an within the religious and literary environment of late antiquity.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: Brill, Leiden (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an 6)

Cite

Marx, Michael. The Qur'an in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur'anic Milieu (ed. with Angelika Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai). 2010. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/michael-marx/#michael-marx-the-qur-an-in-context-historical-and

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COLLECTION 2019 · English · Brill, Leiden

Qur'an Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries, and the Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qur'ans (ed. with Andreas Kaplony)

Edited volume on Qur'anic citations in papyrus documents and on the problems raised by radiocarbon dating of early Qur'ans.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: Brill, Leiden

Cite

Marx, Michael. Qur'an Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries, and the Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qur'ans (ed. with Andreas Kaplony). 2019. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/michael-marx/#michael-marx-qur-an-quotations-preserved-on-papyrus-documents

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Articles & essays 1

ARTICLE 2023 · English · Radiocarbon (Cambridge University Press)

Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran with Aghaei Abrandabadi, Bahrololoumi, Hajdas, Jafarian, Kordavani

Presents carbon-dating results for manuscripts held at the University of Tehran's Central Library.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: Radiocarbon (Cambridge University Press)

Cite

Marx, Michael. Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran. 2023. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/michael-marx/#michael-marx-radiocarbon-dating-of-manuscripts-kept-in-the

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Papers 1

CHAPTER 2019 · English · in Kaplony and Marx (eds.), Qur'an Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries, Brill, Leiden

Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qur'an Manuscripts with Tobias J. Jocham

Reports radiocarbon results for several early Qur'an fragments, finding some older than palaeography suggested, and discusses the method's limits when combined with palaeography and orthography.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: corpuscoranicum.de

Cite

Marx, Michael. Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qur'an Manuscripts. 2019. https://corpuscoranicum.de/pdf/Radiocarbon_Dating_of_Quran_Manuscripts.pdf. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/michael-marx/#michael-marx-radiocarbon-14c-dating-of-qur-an-manuscripts

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