Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600-1700)

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by  David Thomas, John Chesworth et al. (eds.)

Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
History of Christian-Muslim Relations
Christian-Muslim A Bibliographical History
Relations
Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe
(1600-1700)
Editorial Board
David Thomas (University of Birmingham)
Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham)
Edited by
Sandra Toenies Keating (Providence College)
David Thomas and John Chesworth
Tarif Khalidi (American University of Beirut)
Suleiman Mourad (Smith College)
with Clinton Bennett, Lejla Demiri,
Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame)
Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Douglas Pratt
Mark Swanson (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
Volume 29
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 a variety of forms: authoritative, text editions and annotated transla-
tions, studies of authors and their works and collections of essays on particular themes and
historical periods. 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 communica-
tion, 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.
A number of volumes of the History of Christian-Muslim Relations series are published
within the subseries Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.
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Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe
(1600-1700)
Edited by
David Thomas and John Chesworth
with Clinton Bennett, Lejla Demiri,
Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Douglas Pratt
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2016
Cover illustration: Portrait of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Annurī, the Moroccan
ambassador, c. 1600, painter unknown. It has been suggested that the ambassador was
a model for the character of Othello, in Shakespeare’s play of 1604. On display at the
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford upon Avon. The University of
Birmingham Research and Cultural Collections.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / Edited by David Thomas and
John Chesworth with Clinton Bennett, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź,
Douglas Pratt.
  p. cm. — (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, ISSN 1570-7350 ; v. 29)
 Includes index.
 ISBN 9789004309173 (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.
 BP172.C4196 2009
 016.2612’7—dc22
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CONTENTS
Foreword  ....................................................................................................... vii
List of Illustrations  ...................................................................................... x
Abbreviations  ............................................................................................... xii
Stanisław Grodź, Introduction  ................................................................. 1
Jo-Ann Ezra, Diplomacy, Piracy and Commerce: Christian-Muslim
Relations between North Africa, the Ottoman Empire and Britain
c. 1580-1685  ................................................................................................. 15
Karel Steenbrink, Dutch versus Portuguese colonialism. Traders
versus crusaders?  .................................................................................... 35
Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1600-1700  ................................ 49
British Isles  .................................................................................................... 51
The Netherlands and Scandinavia  .......................................................... 551
Poland and Lithuania  ................................................................................. 673
Russia  .............................................................................................................. 819
Index of Names  ............................................................................................ 989
Index of Titles  ............................................................................................... 1005

FOREWORD
David Thomas
This volume of Christian-Muslim relations. A bibliographical History
(CMR 8) continues the history of relations between Christians and
Muslims according to the original sources in the period 1600-1700. CMR 8
focuses on works from Great Britain, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Poland,
Lithuania and Russia, mostly written by authors who either professed
Christianity or reflected its teachings and the attitudes emanating from
them. It shows that while prejudices known from earlier times were still
current, among them that Muslims had been misled by a false prophet,
were morally directionless and represented the embodiment of evil,
there were also glimmerings of awareness that they may be capable of
salvation like Christians, and open curiosity about their beliefs and ways.
As a result of intensifying encounters through trade, diplomatic initiatives
and the memoires of travellers, there was also more extensive and more
accurate knowledge about them and their beliefs, though this was held
in tension with stories about Islamic origins passed down from former
times, in particular the life and status of Muḥammad, who remained the
arch-imposter.
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. As in earlier volumes, the editors have been
generously assisted by both new and established scholars, who have
often written at length and in detail 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. This is especially true for
entries concerning works from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Like its predecessors, CMR 8 starts with introductory essays that
treat details of the political and religious situation in the world of the
17th century in which the works concerned with Christian-Muslim
relations were written. Following these come the entries that make up the
bulk of the volume. The basic criterion has been to choose works written
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
viii FOREWORD
also frequently qualify. Everything has been included that is thought to
contribute substantially towards building the picture of Islam that was
portrayed by Christians, and towards constructing attitudes towards
Muslims expressed by Christians.
This principle criterion is easily applicable in many cases, but it proves
difficult in a significant minority of instances (not least Russian stories in
which Muslims (usually Turks) appear at first sight more as threats to
the integrity of the nation than as bearers of a religion). 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, has been 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 though have not died until 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 debatable decisions.
Each entry is divided into two main parts. The first is concerned with
the author, and it contains basic biographical details, an account of their
main intellectual activities and writings, the major primary sources of
information about them, and the latest scholarly works on them. A small
number of entries are concerned with groups of authors, in which case
they are situated in their place and time as appropriate. Without aiming
to be exhaustive in biographical detail or scholarly study, this section
contains sufficient information for readers to pursue further points about
each author and their 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 fully up to date at
the time of going to press.
With this coverage, CMR 8 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 region written at the same time, though
this grouping should be regarded as more a matter of convenience than
FOREWORD ix
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
their immediate locality or time.
The composition of CMR 8 has involved more than a hundred con-
tributors, 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), Emma Loghin (Research
Associate), Clinton Bennett (British Isles and Scandinavia), Stanisław
Grodź (Poland and Slavonic neighbours) Cornelia Soldat (Russia) and
Karel Steenbrink (The Netherlands). 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 expertise,
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. In addition, Carol Rowe copy
edited the entire volume, and Alex Mallett 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 both
presumptuous and 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
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 further editions. Please send details
of these to David Thomas at [email protected].
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio, by Abraham
Ortelius, 1601, based on Anthony Jenkinson’s sketch map of
his travels. © The British Library Board  ....................................... 84
2 Frontispiece of Relation of a Journey, 1615, 1st edition. © The
British Library Board, G.2273  ........................................................... 175
3 F rontispiece of Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre,
1640, 2nd edition. © The British Library Board, K1/5307  ........... 264
4 Illustration from The History of the present state of the
Ottoman Empire, 1686, 6th edition. © The British Library
Board, 1053.a.6  ..................................................................................... 416
5 F rontispiece and title page of Eben-ezer, 1684, 3rd edition.
© The British Library Board, 790.a.34  ........................................... 461
6 J an Sobieski III repulses the Turks at the siege of Vienna in
1683, by Jan Matejko (1838-93)  ........................................................ 510
7 T itle and illustration for the ballad Newes from Argier. By
permission of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College
Cambridge  ............................................................................................ 543
8 P ortrait of Joseph Justus Scaliger with an Arabic text,
attributed to Johannes Cornelisz van‘t Woudt, c. 1608. Icones
Leidenses 31. Reproduced with permission of Leiden
University Library  ............................................................................... 555
9 D etail of a view of Marrakesh, by Adriaen Matham.
© Bibliothéque National, Paris  ....................................................... 594
10 P age of the alba amicorum dedicated to Johannes Fredericus
Gronovius, handwritten by Anna van Schurman. Image
reproduced courtesy of Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National
Library of the Netherlands. Hs. 130 E 32, f. 61: ‘Ultraiecti
13. kal. Septēb. 1638’ (= 20 augustus 1638)  ..................................... 599
11 Frontispiece of Kronika Sarmacyjej europskiej. Public domain,
from Biblioteka Cyfrowa Diecezji Legnickiej, Poland  .............. 716
12 Ulozhenie of 1649 showing Chapter 22, Article 24. Russian
State Library, Moscow  ....................................................................... 878