عنوان

Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 /

شابک

0812240189

شابک

9780812240184

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Thomas E. Burman

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Philadelphia :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Pennsylvania Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007

نام خاص و کميت اثر

vi, 317 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Material texts

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and indexes

متن يادداشت

"Most 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 of Islam. Christian readings of the Qur'an have in consequence typically been depicted as a tedious and one-dimensional exercise in anti-Islamic hostility." "In Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560, Thomas E. Burman looks instead to a different set of sources: the Latin translations of the Qur'an made by European scholars and the manuscripts and early printed books in which these translations circulated. Using these largely unexplored materials, Burman argues that the reading of the Qur'an in Western Europe was much more complex. While their reading was certainly often focused on attacking Islam, scholars of the period turned out to be equally interested in a whole range of grammatical, lexical, and interpretive problems presented by the text. Indeed, these two approaches were interconnected: attacking the Qur'an often required sophisticated explorations of difficult Arabic grammatical problems." "Furthermore, while most readers explicitly denounced the Qur'an as a fraud, translations of the book are sometimes inserted into the standard manuscript format of Christian Bibles and other prestigious Latin texts (small, centered blocks of text surrounded by commentary) or in manuscripts embellished with beautiful decorated initials and elegant calligraphy for the pleasure of wealthy collectors." "Addressing Christian-Muslim relations generally, as well as the histories of reading and the book, Burman offers a picture of how Europeans read the sacred text of Islam."--BOOK JACKET

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran-- Criticism, interpretation, etc

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.-- Europe-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran-- Manuscripts-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran-- Reading-- Europe-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran-- Translating

موضوع مستند نشده

Koran., Latin-- Versions-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Christianity and other religions-- Islam

موضوع مستند نشده

Church history-- Middle Ages, 600-1500

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Burman, Thomas E

تاريخ عمليات

20091019104752.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y