A Note on Matters of Form
Introduction: Qur'ān Translation, Qur'ān Manuscripts, and Qur'ān
Reading in Latin Christendom
Chapter 1. Translation, Philology, and Latin Style
Chapter 2. Latin-Christian Qur'ān Translators, Muslim Qur'ān
Exegesis
Chapter 3. Polemic, Philology, and Scholastic Reading in the
Earliest Manuscript of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'ān
Chapter 4. New Readers, New Frames: The Later Manuscript and
Printed Versions of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an
Chapter 5. The Qur'ān Translations of Mark of Toledo and Flavius
Mithridates: Manuscript Framing and Reading Approaches
Chapter 6. The Manuscripts of Egidio da Viterbo's Bilingual Qur'ān:
Philology (and Polemic?) in the Sixteenth Century
Conclusion. Juan de Segovia and Qur'ān Reading in Latin
Christendom, 1140-1560
Appendix: Four Translations of 22:1-5
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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.
Thomas E. Burman is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"This book is a tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship that
deserves a wide readership among medievalists and Islamicists
alike."
*American Historical Review*
"Singularly original both in the kinds of sources it uses and in
its analyses and conclusions. . . . A major contribution that will
change the way medieval and Renaissance history of Muslim-Christian
relations is written."
*Dimitri Gutas, Yale University*
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book: mastery not only of Arabic and Latin was required but also of
translation methodologies, library science, Christian-Muslim
relations, intellectual history, and a host of other relevant
areas, such as the indigenization of scripture. Burman completed
this task admirably, not only pulling together the complexities of
how books are formatted for reading but also doing justice to the
personalities and mind-sets of the four centuries under
consideration. . . . Superior scholarship. . . . Highly
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