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Reading the Quran in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560
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Reading the Quran in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560Thomas E. BurmanWinner of the 2007 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistorySuperbly documented and highly convincing.--TLSThis book is a tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship that deserves a wide readership among medievalists and Islamicists alike.--American Historical ReviewSingularly 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 UniversityOnly a modern-day Renaissance scholar could have written this 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 mid-sets of the four centuries under consideration. . . . Superior scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.--ChoiceSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleMost 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 others. Christian readings of the Quran have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious and one-dimensional exercises in anti-Islamic hostility.In Reading the Quran in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560, Thomas E. Burman looks instead to a different set of sources: the Latin translations of the Quran 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 Quran
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