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The European Qur'an

Gefördert durch: European Research Council
Herausgegeben von: Mercedes García-Arenal, Jan Loop, John Tolan und Roberto Tottoli

ISSN: 2701-0554

e-ISSN 2701-0562

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The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 is a peer-reviewed book series publishing the research results of the correspondent ERC project EuQu. The European Qur’an 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. The titles dealing with aspects of the transmission, translation and study of the Qur’an in Europe, in debates about European cultural and religious identities, and more broadly about the place of the Qur’an in European culture. General Editors are the four Principal investigators: Mercedes García-Arenal, John Tolan, Roberto Tottoli and Jan Loop.

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Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

European Muslims and the Qur’an

Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification

Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Gerard Wiegers

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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This edited volume aims to advance a Muslim-centered perspective on the study of Islam in Europe. To do so, it brings together a range of case studies that illustrate how European Muslims engaged with their Sacred Scripture while being part of a Christian-dominated social and political space. The research presented in this volume seeks to analyse Muslims’ practices of translating, interpreting and using the Qur’an as a sacred object and, thus, pursues three main research agendas. Part I focuses on the issues of Muslim-Christian relations in Europe and studies how these relations have engendered discursive connections between Muslim- and Christian-produced texts related to the study and interpretation of the Qur’an. Part II aims to bring scholarly attention to the under-represented cases of Muslim communities in Europe. This part introduces new research on Polish-Belarusian, Daghestani, Bosnian and Kazan Tatars and examines local traditions of producing vernacular Qur’ans and commodification of Qur’anic manuscripts. The final section of the volume, Part III, contributes to filling in the gaps related to the theoretical and conceptual framing of Muslim translation activities. The history of religious thought and practice in European history is in many ways still uncharted territory. This book aims to contribute to a better understanding of the cultural history of the Qur’an and Muslim agency in interpreting, transmitting and translating the Sacred Scripture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111096032
ISBN:: 9783111096032
ISBN:: 9783111140797
ISBN:: 9783111140841
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Koran
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

The Qur’an in Rome

Manuscripts, Translations, and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Catholicism

Federico Stella, Roberto Tottoli

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Despite its relevance to the subsequent development of Western Islamic studies, the intellectual contribution of early modern Catholicism is still an under-researched area. The aim of this volume is to fill this gap, offering a series of essays dealing with the study of the Qur’an and Arabic language in early modern Catholic Europe. Focusing on the circulation of manuscripts, translations and printed books, the essays highlight how Catholic Orientalism contributed to the birth and spread of Western Islamic studies, although sometimes it was still directed towards religious polemics. Among the protagonists of this period of Islamic studies, the volume will focus on Catholic priests, missionaries, religious orders (Jesuits, Franciscans, Carmelites) Eastern Christians, converts, and other prominent figures in the Catholic culture of the time. Special attention will be given to the work of Ludovico Marracci, author of a fundamental edition of the Arabic text and Latin translation of the Qur’an with an introduction, notes, refutations and religious and linguistic insights.

The volume is of interest to an audience of specialists and non-specialists interested both in Islamic and Qur'anic studies and in the history of modern Catholicism, missions, and Orientalism

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111098623
ISBN:: 9783111098623
ISBN:: 9783111096926
ISBN:: 9783111083568
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Koran
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

The Iberian Qur’an

From the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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Due to the long presence of Muslims in Islamic territories (Al-Andalus and Granada) and of Muslims minorities in the Christians parts, the Iberian Peninsula provides a fertile soil for the study of the Qur’an and Qur’an translations made by both Muslims and Christians. From the mid-twelfth century to at least the end of the seventeenth, the efforts undertaken by Christian scholars and churchmen, by converts, by Muslims (both Mudejars and Moriscos) to transmit, interpret and translate the Holy Book are of the utmost importance for the understanding of Islam in Europe.

This book reflects on a context where Arabic books and Arabic speakers who were familiar with the Qur’an and its exegesis coexisted with Christian scholars. The latter not only intended to convert Muslims, and polemize with them but also to adquire solid knowledge about them and about Islam. Qur’ans were seized during battle, bought, copied, translated, transmitted, recited, and studied. The different features and uses of the Qur’an on Iberian soil, its circulation as well as the lives and works of those who wrote about it and the responses of their audiences, are the object of this book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778847
ISBN:: 9783110778847
ISBN:: 9783110779042
ISBN:: 9783110778595
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Koran
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2023

The Qur’an: A Guidebook

Roberto Tottoli

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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The Qur’an: A Guidebook is an updated English version of the work appeared in Italian (Rome 2021) Leggere e studiare il Corano which deals with the contents of the Qur’an, the style and formal features of the text, the history and fixation of it and an poutline of the reception in Islamic literature.

The aim of the work is to give a reader a description of what he/she can find in the Islamic holy text and the state of the critical debates on all the topics dealt with, focusing mainly on the growing scholarly literature which appeared in the last 30 years. As such, the work is unique in combining the aim to give comprehensive information on the topic and, at the same, time, reconstruct the critical debate in a balanced outline also emphasizing confessional approaches and the dynamics in the study of the Qur’an.

There is nothing similar in contemporary scholarship and the book is a handbook for students and scholars of Islam but also for readers in religious studies who need to know how the main questions related to the Islamic text have been discussed in recent scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771329
ISBN:: 9783110771329
ISBN:: 9783110770872
ISBN:: 9783110771442
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Koran
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500

Translation, Transition, Interpretation

Cándida Ferrero Hernández, John Tolan

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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In 1143 Robert of Ketton produced the first Latin translation of the Qur’an. This translation, extant in 24 manuscripts, was one of the main ways in which Latin European readers had access to the Muslim holy book. Yet it was not the only means of transmission of Quranic stories and concepts to the Latin world: there were other medieval translations into Latin of the Qur’an and of Christian polemical texts composed in Arabic which transmitted elements of the Qur’an (often in a polemical mode).

The essays in this volume examine the range of medieval Latin transmission of the Qur’an and reaction to the Qur’an by concentrating on the manuscript traditions of medieval Qur’an translations and anti-Islamic polemics in Latin. We see how the Arabic text was transmitted and studied in Medieval Europe. We examine the strategies of translators who struggled to find a proper vocabulary and syntax to render Quranic terms into Latin, at times showing miscomprehensions of the text or willful distortions for polemical purposes. These translations and interpretations by Latin authors working primarily in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Spain were the main sources of information about Islam for European scholars until well into the sixteenth century, when they were printed, reused and commented. This volume presents a key assessment of a crucial chapter in European understandings of Islam.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110702712
ISBN:: 9783110702712
ISBN:: 9783110702743
ISBN:: 9783110702637
Fachgebiet:: Islam- und Nahostwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Koran
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters
Fachgebiet:: Islamische Studien
Verlag:: De Gruyter