The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500: Translation, Transition, Interpretation

508 Pages·2021·4.68 MB·English

by  Tolan, John, Ferrero Hernández, Cándida

The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500
The European Qurʼan
Edited by
Mercedes García-Arenal, Jan Loop,
John Tolan and Roberto Tottoli
Volume 1
The Latin Qur’an,
1143–1500
Translation, Transition, Interpretation
Edited by
Cándida Ferrero Hernández and John Tolan
The research leading to these results has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, SyG grant
agreement no. 810141, project EuQu: “The European Qu’ran. Islamic Scripture in European
Culture and Religion 115-1850”).
Editorial coordination: Teresa Madrid Álvarez-Piñer
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Contents
Acknowledgements   IX
Cándida Ferrero Hernández
Introduction   1
Thomas E. Burman
The Four Oldest Latin Quotations of the Qur’an: Eighth/Ninth-Century
al-Andalus   11
Anthony John Lappin
On the Genesis and Formation of the Corpus Cluniacense    27
Reinhold F. Glei
Dixit apostoli. The Word-by-word Principle in Latin Translations
of the Qur’an   57
Olivier Hanne
Translating from Arabic to Latin in the Twelfth Century: The Examples
of Two Englishmen, Robert of Ketton and Adelard of Bath   71
Fernando González Muñoz
Corrections to Robert of Ketton’s Translation of the Qur’an in MS Paris
Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal 1162   95
Óscar de la Cruz Palma
Robert de Ketton, traditore: Manifestations of anti-Islamic Radicalism in the
First Latin Translation of the Qur’an   111
José Luis Alexis Rivera Luque
Translatological Remarks on Rendering the Qur’an into Latin
(Robert of Ketton, Mark of Toledo and Egidio da Viterbo): Purposes,
Theory, and Techniques   123
Florence Ninitte
The Contribution of the Speculum historiale to the History of the Latin Risālat
al-Kindī and the Corpus Cluniacense   139
VI   Contents
Agustín Justicia Lara
Context and the Use of Quotes from Robert of Ketton’s Translation of the
Qur’an in the Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis   159
Antoni Biosca i Bas
Interpretatio iuxta traditionem: The Transmission of
Latin Anti-Islamic Texts   177
Jacob Langeloh
Qur’an at the Council. Manuscripts and Use of the Ketton Translation of the
Qur’an at the Council of Basel (1431–1449)   185
Irene Reginato
An Indirect Usage of the Qur’an in the XVth century. Jean Germain’s Débat du
chrétien et du sarrasin   205
José Martínez Gázquez
The Extracta ex Alcorano and Giacomo della Marca’s Glosses
in MS Falconara 3   225
Nàdia Petrus Pons
The Glosses on Mark of Toledo’s Alchoranus Latinus   283
Katarzyna K. Starczewska
Dhul-Qarnayn, The One of the Two Horns, in the Latin Glosses to
the Qur’an   299
Ulisse Cecini
Qur’an Quotations in the Liber de Doctrina Mahumet   317
Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé
Using Muslim Exegesis in Europe in the 12th and 18th Centuries: A Comparative
Study of Robert of Ketton’s and George Sale’s Approaches   349
Davide Scotto
Riccoldo da Monte di Croce and the Origins of the Qur’an as a Deviation
from Christian Salvation History   363
Contents   VII
Cándida Ferrero Hernández
Riccoldo the Florentine’s Reprobacion del Alcoran: A Manual for Preaching
to the ‘Moors’   395
Juan Pablo Arias Torres
Sicut Euangelia sunt quatuor, distribuerunt continentiam eius in quatuor libros:
On the Division of Iberian Qur’ans and Their Translations into
Four Parts   425
Xavier Casassas Canals
The Bellús Qur’an, Martín García, and Martín de Figuerola: The Study of the
Qur’an and Its Use in the Sermones de la Fe and the Disputes with Muslims in
the Crown of Aragon in the Sixteenth Century   455
John Tolan
Conclusion: Robert of Ketton’s Translation and its Legacy   475
List of Contributors   481
Index of Manuscript   485
Index   489

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the authors of the essays in this volume for their presence
at the conference which we held at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in
March 2020 and for their participation in this volume.
Thanks to the European Research Council (ERC), which provided funding
for the conference and for this publication, under the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement no. 810141, project
EuQu: “The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Reli-
gion 1150-1850.”
Thanks to the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona for organizing and hosting
the conference and in particular to Amanda Rio de Pedro, Javier De Prado Garcia,
María Díez Gutiérrez, Agustín Justicia Lara y David Vázquez Ruiz. Special thanks
to Amanda Rio de Pedro and Teresa Madrid Álvarez-Piñer for the collecting and
coordinating the articles in this volume. Thanks to Laura Napran who compiled
the Index. Thanks to Sophie Wagenhofer at De Gruyter for her help and for her
enthusiasm in making possible this first volume of our new book series.
Special thanks are in order to José Martínez Gázquez, a pioneer in the study
of the European Qur’an and the founder of the Islamolatina project at the Univer-
sidad Autónoma de Barcelona. It is our pleasure to dedicate this volume to him,
as mentor, colleague and friend.
Cándida Ferrero Hernández & John Tolan
This book is dedicated to José Martínez Gázquez, mentor, colleague and friend,
pioneer in the study of the European Qur’an
Gaudens gaudebo de augmento honoris uestri.
Monumenta Alcuiniana. epist. 166.
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