Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 / / Thomas E. Burman.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleMost of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Matters of Form
- Introduction. Qur'ān Translation, Qur'ān Manuscripts, and Qur'ān Reading in Latin Christendom
- Chapter 1. Translation, Philology, and Latin Style
- Chapter 2. Latin-Christian Qur'ān Translators, Muslim Qur'ān Exegesis
- Chapter 3. Polemic, Philology, and Scholastic Reading in the Earliest Manuscript of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'ān
- Chapter 4. New Readers, New Frames: The Later Manuscript and Printed Versions of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'ān
- Chapter 5. The Qur'ān Translations of Mark of Toledo and Flavius Mithridates: Manuscript Framing and Reading Approaches
- Chapter 6. The Manuscripts of Egidio da Viterbo's Bilingual Qur'an: Philology (and Polemic?) in the Sixteenth Century
- Conclusion. Juan de Segovia and Qur'ān Reading in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560
- Appendix. Four Translations of 22:1-5
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Qur'ānic References
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Persons and Subjects
- Acknowledgments