The Iberian Qur'an : from the middle ages to modern times / Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Arenal, Mercedes, author.

Wiegers, Gerard, author.

Series:

The European Qur'an

The European Qur'an ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Study and teaching.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Translating.

Education.

Europe--Iberian Peninsula.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The European Qur'an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 is a peer-reviewed book series with the EuQu project results. The volumes analyze the important role that the Qur'an has played in the formation of medieval and early modern European religious diversity and identity, deeply imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and part of the intellectual repertoire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

The Iberian Qur’an and the Qur’an in Iberia: A Survey

I Latin and the Development of Literal Translation

Robert of Ketton and Mark of Toledo and the Rise and Development of the Literal Translation of the Qur’an

The Qur’an and the ‘Laws of Muḥammad’ in Medieval Christian Eyes

A Mozarabic Qur’an? Some Reflexions on the Evidence

Projecting the Qur’an into the Past. A Reassessment of Juan de Segovia’s Disputes with Muslims in Medina del Campo (1431)

Germanus de Silesia’s Qur’an Translation in the MS K-III-1 of the El Escorial Library: Newly Discovered Revised Versions

II Muslims in Christian Spain: From Arabic to Aljamía

The Office of the Four Chief Judges of Mamluk Cairo and their views on Translating the Qur’an in the Early Sixteenth Century: Iberian Islam in a Global Context

New Models of Qur’an Abridgment among the Mudejars and Moriscos: Copies in Arabic Containing three Selections of Suras

Dialectal Variations in Aljamiado Translations of the Qur’an

Morisco Methods for Memorizing the Qur’an: Fragmentary Copies with the Suras in Reverse Order

The Inquisition and the Search for Qur’ans

III Antialcoranes. Polemicists, Converts, Scholars

Sounding the Qur’an: The Rhetoric of Transliteration in the Antialcoranes

Preaching, Polemic, and Qur’an. Joan Martí de Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán

Quoting the Original: Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe and the Arabic Qur’an

Translations from Arabic of Iberian Origin in Egidio da Viterbo’s Qur’an

To Translate is to Interpret: Exegetic Annotations in the Qur’an of Bellús (Valencia c. 1518)

IV Modern Times

Rediscovering the Qur’an in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Allure and Aversion in the Shadow of A. B. Kazimirski’s French Edition

José Filiberto Portillo: Qur’an, Poetry and Exile in the Court of Isabel II

The Qur’an in the Spanish Philippines

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110778847

311077884X