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Machumetis, Saracenorvm principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran <Latin> (1543) is a book by Theodor Bibliander.

Abstract

First printed edition of the Qur'an in Latin, based on the 12th cent. translation by Robert of Ketton (Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete). As the full title of the three-volume work illustrates, the Latin Qur'an was part of a much larger collection of all the most important texts on Islamic civilization available at the time, including Christian apologetic literature:

"Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran. Quo velut authentico legum divinarum codice Agareni ac Turcae, aliique Christo adversantes populi reguntur, quae ante annos CCCC, vir multis hominibus, Divi quoque Bernardi testimonio clarissimus, D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per viros eruditos, ad fidei Christianae ac sanctae matris Ecclesiae propugnationem, ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curavit. His adiunctae sunt confutationes multorum et quidem probatissimorum authorum Arabum, Graecorum et Latinorum, una cum doctissimi viri Philippi Melanchtonis praemonitione. Quibus velut instructissima fidei catholicae propugnatorum acie, perversa dogmata et tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur. Adiunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum, qui non tam sectatores Machumeticae vaesaniae, quam vindices et propugnatores, nominisque Christiani acerrimos hostes aliquot iam seculis praestiterunt, res gestae maxime memorabiles, a DCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora. Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt, opera et studio Theodori Bibliandri, Ecclesiae Tigurini ministri, qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latini et Arab. Alcorani textum emendavit, et marginib. apposuit Annotationes, quibus doctrinae Machumeticae absurditas, contradictiones, origines errorum divinaeque scripturae depravationes, atque alia id genus iudicantur. Quae quidem in lucem edidit ad gloriam Domini Iesu Christi, et multiplicem Ecclesiae utilitatem, adversus Satanem principem tenebrarum, eiusque nuncium Antichristum: quem oportet manifestari, et confici spiritu oris Christi Servatoris nostri."

Of special relevance for Early Islamic Studies are the first two volumes, the first devoted to the text of the Qur'an and other sources on Islamic Origins, and the second to a series of Christian apologetic commentaries. The third volume deals with contemporary issues of the relations between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Editions

Published in Basel, Switzerland: Johannes Oporinus, 1543 / 2nd ed. 1550.

Contents

Liber I (Alcoran)

  • Praemonitio ad Christianum lectorem, by Melanchthon
  • In Alcorani Praefatio, by Martin Luther
  • Apologia pro editione Alcorani, by Bibliander
  • Codex authenticus doctrinae Mahumeticae, that is, the Qur'an Latin translation by Robert of Ketton, revised by Bibliander
  • Doctrina Machumetis summatim comprehensa, quae apud Saracenos magnae authoritatis est
  • De generatione Mahumet, et nutritura eius
  • Chronica mendosa et ridiculosa Saracenorum, de vita Mahumetis et successorium eius
  • Annotationes eruditis cuiusdam et recentoris scriptoris
  • Annotationes variae lectionis diversorum quatuor exemplarium

Liber II (Confutationes legis Machumeticae)

Liber III (Historiae de Saracenorum sive Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis)

  • Tractatus de moribus, religione, conditionibus et nequitia Turcorum, by Georgius de Hungaria
  • Correspondence between Pope Pious II and sultan Muhammad II
  • Ordinatio politicae turcarum domi et foris
  • A chapter of the Commentarii delle cose de Turci, by Paolo Giovi (in the 1539 Latin translation by Robert Estienne)
  • De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca libellus, by Juan Luis Vives
  • De itineribus in Turciam libellus, by Felix Petancius
  • De regno Ungariae ab hostibus Turcis oppresso, et capto, homilia, by Jacopo Sadoleto

External links

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