Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 7: Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America 1500-1600

975 Pages·2016·3.11 MB·English

by  David Thomas

Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
History of
Christian-Muslim
Relations
Editorial Board
David Thomas, University of Birmingham
Sandra Toenies Keating, Providence College
Tarif Khalidi, American University of Beirut
Suleiman Mourad, Smith College
Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame
Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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Christians and Muslims have been involved in exchanges over matters of faith and morality
since the founding of Islam. Attitudes between the faiths today are deeply coloured by the
legacy of past encounters, and often preserve centuries-old negative views.
The History of Christian-Muslim Relations, Texts and Studies presents the surviving
record of past encounters in authoritative, fully introduced text editions and annotated
translations, and also monograph and collected studies. It illustrates the development
in mutual perceptions as these are contained in surviving Christian and Muslim writings,
and makes available the arguments and rhetorical strategies that, for good or for ill, have
left their mark on attitudes today. The series casts light on a history marked by intellectual
creativity and occasional breakthroughs in communication, although, on the whole beset by
misunderstanding and misrepresentation. By making this history better known, the series
seeks to contribute to improved recognition between Christians and Muslims in the future.
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/hcmr
Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
Volume 7. Central and Eastern Europe, Asia,
Africa and South America (1500-1600)
Edited by
David Thomas and John Chesworth
with John Azumah, Stanisław Grodź,
Andrew Newman, Douglas Pratt
LEIDEN • BoSToN
2015
Cover illustration: This shows the tuğra (monogram) of the ottoman Sultan Murad III, affixed
to a letter sent in 1591 to Sigismund III Vasa, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In the letter, Murad recommends – he neither orders nor requests – that the Tatars in the
Christian Commonwealth should be allowed to build mosques and pray. The original letter
is held in the Central Archives of Historical Records (Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych),
Warsaw, Dział turecki, karton 71, teczka 269, no. 500. Reproduced with permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / edited by David Thomas and John
Chesworth; with John Azumah . . . [et al.].
  p. cm. — (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, ISSN 1570-7350 ; v. 24)
 Includes index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-29720-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Christianity and other religions—
Islam. 2. Islam—Relations—Christianity. 3. Christianity and other religions—Islam—
Bibliography. 4. Islam—Relations—Christianity—Bibliography. I. Thomas, David.
II. Chesworth, John III. Azumah, John. IV. Title. V. Series.
 BP172.C4196 2009
 016.2612’7—dc22
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CoNTENTS
Foreword  ....................................................................................................... vii
Abbreviations  ............................................................................................... xi
Martha Frederiks, Introduction: Christians, Muslims and empires
in the 16th century  .................................................................................... 1
Alan Guenther, The arrival of European Christians in India during
the 16th century  .......................................................................................... 15
Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1500-1600  ................................ 27
Central and Eastern Europe  ..................................................................... 29
Middle East and North Africa  .................................................................. 549
Asia, Africa and South America ............................................................... 743
Index of Names  ............................................................................................ 933
Index of Titles  ............................................................................................... 946

FoREWoRD
David Thomas
This volume of Christian-Muslim relations. A bibliographical history
(CMR 7) continues the history of relations between Christians and
Muslims according to the original sources in the period 1500-1600. CMR 7
focuses on works from Eastern Europe, the ottoman Empire and the
Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and the Americas. It shows that many
of the attitudes and prejudices known from the Middle Ages were still
current, among them on the Christian side the sense that Muslims had
been misled by a false prophet and were morally directionless, and on
the Muslim side that Christians had abandoned the bases of their faith
and needed guidance in their beliefs. At the same time, new fears were
also evident as a result of open confrontation between powers that called
themselves Christian and Muslim, sometimes balanced by admiration.
In eastern and south-eastern Europe Christians looked on the advancing
ottomans as heartless aggressors who treated them with depraved cruelty,
and reneged on promises they had made, though Christian authors also
commented on the discipline among ottoman troops and their efficiency
in the field; in western India Muslims looked on the Portuguese invaders
as virtual animals who subjected their women to rape and their sacred
buildings and texts to desecration, though the Mughal emperor sought
out Jesuits for their erudition and godliness. While Christians and Muslims
encountered one another in new regions of the world, their uncertainties
about one another were slow to change.
The intention of the CMR series is to provide full accounts of all the
known works written by Christians and Muslims about one another and
against one another. These are intended as a foundation for more detailed
investigations in historical and current contexts. As in earlier volumes,
the editors have been generously assisted by both new and established
scholars to produce a collection of entries that reflect the latest research,
and in some instances take it forward and extend it beyond what was
previously known.
Like its predecessors, CMR 7 starts with introductory essays that survey
the political and religious situation in the world of the 16th century outside
Western Europe. Following these come the entries that make up the bulk
of the volume. The basic criterion has been to choose works written
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substantially about or against the other faith, or containing significant
information or judgements that cast light on attitudes of one faith towards
the other. Thus, by their very nature, apologetic and polemical works are
included, while letters, addresses, plays and works of travel and history
also frequently qualify. Everything has been included that is thought to
contribute in a significant way towards building the picture of the one
faith as seen by followers of the other, and of attitudes between them.
This principle criterion is easily applicable in many cases, but it proves
difficult in a significant minority of instances. An inclusive approach has
therefore been adopted, especially with respect to works that may contain
only small though insightful details or only appear to touch obliquely on
relations. Another criterion is that inclusion of works within this volume,
like its predecessors, was decided according to the date of their author’s
death, not the date when the works themselves appeared. The adoption
of this approach has led to evident anomalies at either end, where authors
were mainly or almost entirely active in one century but have died at
the beginning of the next. If this seems arbitrary, it is balanced by the
consideration that any other criterion would also be likely to involve
decisions that could just as easily be disputed.
Each entry is divided into two main parts. The first is concerned with
the author, and it contains basic biographical details, an account of his
(all authors appearing in this volume are male) main intellectual activities
and writings, the major primary sources of information about him, and the
latest scholarly works about him. A small number of entries are concerned
with a group of authors, in which case they are situated in their place
and time as appropriate. Without aiming to be exhaustive, this section
contains sufficient information for readers to pursue further details about
each author and his general activities.
The second part of the entry is concerned with the works of the author
that are specifically devoted to the other faith. Here completeness is
the aim. A work is named and dated (where possible), and then in two
important sections its contents are described and its significance in the
history of Christian-Muslim relations is appraised. There follow sections
listing publication details and studies, intended to be completely up to
date at the time of going to press.
With this coverage, CMR 7 should provide sufficient information to
enable a work to be identified, its importance appreciated, and editions
and studies located. Each work is also placed as far as is possible together
with other works from the same time written in the same region, though
FOREWORD ix
this grouping should be regarded more as a matter of convenience than as
anything else. Proximity between works in the bibliography is definitely
not an indication of any necessary direct relationship between them,
let alone influence (though this may sometimes be discernible). In this
period, it is as likely that an author would be influenced by a work written
hundreds of miles away or hundreds of years before as by another from his
immediate locality or time.
The composition of CMR 7 has involved more than a hundred
contributors, who have readily and often enthusiastically agreed to write
entries. Under the direction of David Thomas, the work for this volume
was led by John Chesworth (Research officer), Lejla Demiri and Claire
Norton (ottoman Empire), Martha Frederiks (West Africa), Abdulkadir
Hashim (East Africa), Stanisław Grodź (Eastern Europe), Alan Guenther
and Gordon Nickel (South Asia), Şevket Küçükhüseyin (Germany), Emma
Loghin (Project Secretary), Andrew Newman (Persia), Peter Riddell
(South East Asia), Umar Ryad (Muslim Arabic works), Serge Traore
(South America), and Carsten Walbiner (Christian Arabic works). These
are members of a much larger team that comprises 25 specialists in total,
covering all parts of the world. Many other scholars from various countries
devoted their interest, energy and time to identifying relevant material
in their specialist areas, finding contributors and sharing their expertise.
Without their help and interest, the task of assembling the material in this
volume would have been much more difficult, if possible at all. Among
many others, special gratitude goes to Attila Barany (Hungary), Peter Cowe
(Armenia), Ioana Feodorov (Romania), Festo Mkenda (East Africa), Dino
Mujadzevic (Croatia), Radu Păun (Romania), Vlado Rezar (Croatia), and
Denis Savelyev (Russia). In addition, Carol Rowe copy edited the entire
volume, while Alex Mallett took on the exacting work of compiling the
two indexes, and also provided links with the staff editors at Brill. The CMR
team are deeply indebted to everyone who has contributed in any way.
The project is funded by a grant made by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council of Great Britain, and this is acknowledged with
gratitude.
Strenuous efforts have been made to ensure that information is
both accurate and complete, though in a project that crosses as many
geographical as disciplinary boundaries as this it would be not only
presumptuous but also entirely unrealistic to claim that these efforts have
succeeded. Details (hopefully only minor) must have been overlooked,
authors and works have maybe been ignored, new works will have come
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to light, new editions, translations and studies will have appeared, and
new dates and interpretations put forward. Corrections, additions and
updates are therefore warmly invited. They will be incorporated into the
online version of CMR, and into any future editions. Please send details of
these to David Thomas at [email protected].