Addressing Christian-Muslim relations generally, as well as the histories of reading and the book, Burman offers a balanced and hands-on picture of the ways Europeans read the sacred text of Islam.

Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

Thomas E. Burman

2007 | 328 pages | Cloth $59.95 | Paper $24.95
Religion | History

Table of Contents

A Note on Matters of Form

Introduction: Qur'an Translation, Qur'an Manuscripts, and Qur'an Reading in Latin Christendom

Chapter 1. Translation, Philology, and Latin Style
Chapter 2. Latin-Christian Qur'an Translators, Muslim Qur'an Exegesis
Chapter 3. Polemic, Philology, and Scholastic Reading in the Earliest Manuscript of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an
Chapter 4. New Readers, New Frames: The Later Manuscript and Printed Versions of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an
Chapter 5. The Qur'an 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'an Reading in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

Appendix: Four Translations of 22:1-5
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments