{"product_id":"reading-the-quran-in-latin-christendom-11401560-9780812220629","title":"Reading the Quran in Latin Christendom 11401560","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship that deserves a wide readership among medievalists and Islamicists alike.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Only 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 mind-sets of the four centuries under consideration. . . . Superior scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on Matters of Form\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Qur'ān Translation, Qur'ān Manuscripts, and Qur'ān Reading in Latin Christendom\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Translation, Philology, and Latin Style\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Latin-Christian Qur'ān Translators, Muslim Qur'ān Exegesis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Polemic, Philology, and Scholastic Reading in the Earliest Manuscript of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'ān\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. New Readers, New Frames: The Later Manuscript and Printed Versions of Robert of Ketton's Latin Qur'an\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Qur'ān Translations of Mark of Toledo and Flavius Mithridates: Manuscript Framing and Reading Approaches\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Manuscripts of Egidio da Viterbo's Bilingual Qur'ān: Philology (and Polemic?) in the Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Juan de Segovia and Qur'ān Reading in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Four Translations of 22:1-5\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Short Titles\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405697098071,"sku":"9780812220629","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812220629.jpg?v=1730493314","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-the-quran-in-latin-christendom-11401560-9780812220629","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}