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050 00 $aBP131.15.L37$bB87 2007
100 1 $aBurman, Thomas E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94074163
245 10 $aReading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 /$cThomas E. Burman.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c2007.
300 $avi, 317 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aMaterial texts
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and indexes.
505 00 $tIntroduction : Qur'an translation, Qur'an manuscripts, and Qur'an reading in Latin Christendom -- $g1.$tTranslation, philology, and Latin style -- $g2.$tLatin-Christian Qur'an translators, Muslim Qur'an exegesis -- $g3.$tPolemic, philology, and scholastic reading in the earliest manuscript of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an -- $g4.$tNew readers, new frames : the later manuscript and printed versions of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an -- $g5.$tThe Qur'an translations of Mark of Toledo and Flavius Mithridates : manuscript framing and reading approaches -- $g6.$tThe manuscripts of Egidio da Viterbo's bilingual Qur'an : philology (and polemic?) in the sixteenth century -- $tConclusion : Juan de Segovia and Qur'an reading in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 -- $gApp.$tFour translations of 22:1-5.
520 1 $a"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.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xTranslating.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072989
630 00 $aQurʼan.$lLatin$xVersions$xHistory.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.$zEurope$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072959
630 00 $aQurʼan$xReading$zEurope$xHistory.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xManuscripts$xHistory.
650 0 $aChristianity and other religions$xIslam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025266
650 0 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025625
830 0 $aMaterial texts.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001026935
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