Peter the Venerable and Islam /

Peter the Venerable and Islam / / James Aloysius Kritzeck.

For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin translations of five Arabic works, including the first translation of the Koran in a western language....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Kritzeck, James Aloysius,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1964
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies on the Near East ; 2026
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. Peter The Venerable
  • 1. The Journey To Spain
  • 2. The Crusade: A Missing Goal
  • 3. The Project To Study Islam
  • 4. The Appeal To Patristic Authority
  • 5. The Double Purpose
  • II. The Translators
  • 1. The School of Toledo
  • 2. Peter of Toledo
  • 3. Peter of Poi tiers
  • 4. Robert of Ketton
  • 5. Herman of Dalmatia
  • 6. Mohammed
  • III. The Translations
  • 1. MS 1162 of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal
  • 2. The Fabulae Saracenorum
  • 3. The Liber generationis Mahumet
  • 4. The Doctrina Mahumet
  • 5. The Koran
  • 6. The Epistola Saraceni and Rescriptum Christiani
  • 7. The Choice and Accuracy of the Translations
  • IV. The Summary
  • 1. The Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum
  • 2. God, Christ, and the Last Judgment
  • 3. Mohammed the Prophet
  • 4. The Koran and Its Sources
  • 5. Heaven, Hell, and Moral Precepts
  • 6. The Spread of Islam
  • 7. Islam as a Christian Heresy
  • 8. The Value of the Summary
  • V. The Refutation
  • 1. MS 381 of the Bibliotheque municipale de Douai and the Capitula of Peter of Poitiers
  • 2. The Prologue
  • 3. Book One: I
  • 4. Book One: II
  • 5. Book Two: I
  • 6. Book Two: II
  • 7. The Stature of the Refutation
  • VI. Texts
  • 1. A Note on the Texts
  • 2. Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum
  • 3. Epistola Petri Cluniacensis ad Bernardum Claraevallis
  • 4. Epistola Petri Pictavensis
  • 5. Capitula Petri Pictavensis
  • 6. Liber contra sectam sive haeresim Saracenorum
  • Index

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