Christian-Muslim Relations 1500 - 1900
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
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Łabędź z piorami swemi z darami boskiemi Chrystusa
(736 words)
Łabędź‘The swan with its feathers with the divine gifts of Christ’
Joannicjusz Galatowski, Joanicy Galatowski (alternative Polish); Iōan(n)ikii Haliatov(ʾ)skii, Hialetovʾʾskii (Ukrainian); Ioanikii Galiatovʾskyi, Ioan(n)ikii Galatovskii, Ioan(n)ikii Goliatovskii, Ioanikei Galitovskii (Russian) Date: 1679 Original Language: Polish
Description No copy of the original Polish text of
Łabędź (‘The swan’) appears to be extant. Polish scholars consider it to be lost, and Nosowski’s
Polska literatura polemiczno-antyislamistyczna does not even mention it. However…
La civilisation des Arabes
(2,484 words)
‘The civilisation of the Arabs’
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon Date: 1884 Original Language: French
Description
La civilisation des Arabes is 677 pages long, is abundantly and carefully illustrated (10 photolithographs, 4 maps and 366 engravings), and includes a ‘methodical bibliography’ (pp. 679-86 in the 1884 edition, which is the edition cited here) that is meant to compensate for the absence of bibliographical references in the text (which Le Bon states he had to delete) and a ‘methodical table of figures, maps…
La cronaca siculo-saracena di Cambridge
(476 words)
‘The Cambridge Siculo-Saracen chronicle’
Bartolomeo Lagumina Date: 1890 Original Language: Arabic
DescriptionIn this work, Lagumina republishes part of an Arabic manuscript preserved in Cambridge as an appendix to the
Annales of Eutychius of Alexandria (877-940, also known as Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq; see
CMR 2, 224-33). It had already been published by Michele Amari in his
Biblioteca Arabo-Sicula (Lipsia, 1857, the rest of the manuscript being published in Turin, 1880), while the entire manuscript had already been published several times in the 18th century. Lagumina chose for …
La divinità di Gesù Cristo
(1,629 words)
‘The divinity of Jesus Christ’
Carlo Domenico Cerri, Carlo Chênes Date: 1873 Original Language: Italian
Description
La divinità di Gesù Cristo (in full,
La divinità di Gesù Cristo confessata dai dottori Ebrei contemporanei ai tempi apostolici e da Maometto i nel suo Alcorano, ‘The divinity of Jesus Christ confessed by Jewish doctors contemporary with Apostolic times and by Muḥammad in his Qur’an’) is divided into three parts, the third being a conclusion. In the first part (41 pages), starting from the messianic context in which Jesus…
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(1,123 words)
Lady Mary Pierrepont Wortley Montagu; Lady Mary Wortley Montague; Miladi Marie Wortley Montagüe; Milady Marie Wortlay Montagute; Lady Marie Worthley Montague; Maria Worthly Montague; Milady Montague; Lady Montagu; Lady Montegü; Lady Mary Date of Birth: May 1689 Place of Birth: Thoresby Hall, Budby, Nottinghamshire Date of Death: 21 August 1762 Place of Death: Westminster, London
BiographyLady Mary Wortley Montagu (
née Pierrepont) was the wife of Edward Wortley Montagu, the British ambassador to the Ottoman court in Istanbul from 1716 to 1718. She was bo…
La Géographie du prince
(739 words)
‘The prince's geography’
François de La Mothe Le Vayer Date: 1651 Original Language: French
Description La Mothe Le Vayer composed this work as part of a set of texts intended for the instruction of the Dauphin and his brother. It is thus part of a series that includes
La Morale du prince (1651),
La Rhétorique du prince (1651),
L’Oeconomie du prince (1653),
La Politique du prince (1654),
La Logique du prince (1655) and
La Physique du prince (1658). All references in this entry are to the 1684 edition.
La Géographie begins with an examination of the division of the earth i…
La historia dell’impresa di Tripoli di Barbaria
(1,682 words)
La historia dell’impresa di Tripoli di Barbaria‘The history of the expedition to Tripoli in Barbary’
Alfonso Vllon, Alfonso Uglioa, Alfonso di Vglioà, Alfonso di Vglioa Hispano, Alfonso Villoa, Alonso de Ulloa, Alphonse d’Ulloe Date: 1566 Original Language: Italian
Description In 1562, Alfonso de Ulloa declared that he was the author of a chronicle, written in Spanish and published in Venice, that described an attack on Tripoli on the North African coast, in which his uncle, Álvaro de Sande, fought and was later taken prisoner by the…
La historia de los dos enamorados Ozmín y Daraja
(4,529 words)
Ozmín y Daraja‘The story of the two lovers Ozmín and Daraja’, ‘Ozmín and Daraja’
Mateo Alemán Date: 1599 Original Language: Spanish
Description
La historia de los dos enamorados Ozmín y Daraja is a Moorish tale interpolated in the first part of the picaresque novel
Guzmán de Alfarache, published in 1599 (with a second part published in 1604). This work is Alemán’s masterpiece and sole claim to fame.
Ozmín y Daraja takes up Chapter 8 of Book 1 – 47 pages in the 1987 edition by José María Micó. The tale is narrated by a priest encountered on the road by the young…
L'Alcoran de Mahomet
(2,950 words)
‘The Alcoran of Mahomet’
André Du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde-Malezair Date: 1647 Original Language: French
Description Du Ryer’s French translation of the Qur’an,
L
’Alcoran de Mahomet, translaté d’Arabe en
François.
Par le Sieur Du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair, first appeared in Paris in an elegant quarto edition in 1647. It was published by Antoine de Sommaville, noted as the publisher of romances and other forms of light literature in the vernacular. By choosing the same publisher who had produced his translation of the
Gulistān some 13 years earlier, Du Ryer would seem to h…
L'Alcoran de Mahomet
(564 words)
‘The Qur'an of Muḥammad’
Antoine Galland Date: 1709-12 Original Language: Arabic
DescriptionGalland had just been informed that he had obtained the chair of Arabic at the Collège royal when his patron, abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), invited him to consider translating the Qur’an into French. At that time, the text was only available in translation (the first vernacular version of the entire text made from Arabic) in the translation by André du Ryer (c.1580-1660) published in 1647. Galland received the …
L’Alcorano di Macometto
(1,263 words)
L’Alcorano di Macometto'The Qur'an of Muḥammad'
Giovanni Battista Castrodardo Date: 1547 Original Language: Italian
Description The
Alcorano di Macometto (in full
L’Alcorano di Macometto. Nel qual si contiene la dottrina, la vita, i costumi, et le leggi sue. Tradotto nuovamente dall’Arabo in lingua Italiana) was published by Andrea Arrivabene in Venice in 1547. Arrivabene dedicated the book to Gabriel de Luetz, baron of Aramon, the fourth French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1547-53). Both the ambassador and the publisher were closel…
La légende des siècles
(7,044 words)
‘The legend of the ages’
Victor Hugo Date: 1859 Original Language: French
DescriptionThe first series of
La légende des siècles appeared in Paris in 1859. Hugo, who had been exiled for his active participation in the resistance against Louis Napoléon Bonaparte’s
coup
d’état on 2 December 1851, had fled first to Brussels (until the summer of 1852) and then to Jersey (from where he was expelled alongside other French political refugees in 1856), subsequently moving to Guernsey. There, in 1859, he publicly rejected the general amnesty t…
La leggenda di Maometto in Occidente
(2,263 words)
'The legend of Muḥammad in the West’
Alessandro D’Ancona Date: 1889 Original Language: Italian
Description
La leggenda di Maometto in Occidente was published first as an article in 1889 and was then included in D’Ancona’s collection
Studi di critica e storia letteraria (1912) with some additions and corrections. He had originally included an early version in his edition of
Il ‘Tesoro’ di Brunetto Latini versificato (1888). The 1912 version was republished in 1994, edited by Andrea Borruso with small changes to the transcription of Arabic names and terms a…
Lamaʿāt-i malakūtiyya
(271 words)
Lamaʿāt-i malakūtī‘Heavenly splendours’
Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ʿAlavī ʿĀmilī Date: Before mid-July 1625 Original Language: Persian
Description In his
Lamaʿāt-i malakūtiyya (‘Heavenly splendours’), ʿAlavī focuses mainly on philosophical arguments to refute Christian beliefs. Assuming conformity between the esoteric aspects (
bāṭin) of the Gospel and the Qur’an, he identifies the Prophet Muḥammad with the Paraclete (
fāriqlīṭ) of the Gospel of John. In support of his argument, ʿAlavī adduces passages from the Qur’an, the Had…
La Maltea
(844 words)
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Hipólito Sans Date: 1582 Original Language: Castilian
Description This work is a fully-fledged epic poem built on the model of the classical tradition deriving from Virgil. The text itself is preceded by two sonnets, an
epistola addressed to King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-98) and a prologue addressed to the reader. In the
Prologo al lector, Sans explains that his intention in the work is to recount the glory and heroic deeds of the Knights of St John, who had withstood the fierce onslaught of the Ottomans during the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. I…
La mort du sultan Osman
(587 words)
‘The death of Sultan Osman’
Antoine Galland Date: 1678 Original Language: French
DescriptionOn his arrival in Istanbul at the end of 1670, Galland had a quite limited knowledge of the main Oriental languages (Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish). In his correspondence (Abdel-Halim,
Correspondance, letter no. CXLIX), he explains that what led him to translate a small book dealing with the assassination of Sultan Osman II (r. 1618-22) was his wish to practise his Ottoman Turkish. He chose
Musîbetnâme by Hüseyin Tûgī (d. c. 1623), which was composed in the aftermath of the…
La Mosquée verte
(14 words)
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Pierre Loti Date: 1896 Original Language: Arabic and French
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Publications
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KeywordsGaultier Roux
Lancelot Addison
(1,038 words)
Date of Birth: 1632 Place of Birth: Maulds Meaburn, Westmorland, England Date of Death: 20 April 1703 Place of Death: Lichfield, England
BiographyLancelot Addison was the son of another Lancelot Addison, parson of a small village in northern England. The younger Lancelot attended the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA in 1655 and an MA in 1657. A lifelong royalist, he spent the next years ministering privately to royalist families in Sussex, despite the potential danger involved. When Charles II (r. 1660…
La Persia descritta
(1,389 words)
‘Persia described’
Giuseppe Anaclerio Date: 1868 Original Language: Italian
DescriptionThis work, which was published in Naples in 1868, comprises 166 pages, 57 of which (pp. 21-77) are devoted to an exploration of religious life in Persia. It opens with a dedication, dated 24 October 1868, to Cristoforo Negri, General Consul and director of the Consular Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy. Negri was one of the founders, and first president, of the Italian Geographical Soc…
La questione del Califfato in rapporto alle nostre Colonie di diretto dominio
(580 words)
‘The question of the caliphate in relation to our directly controlled colonies’
Enrico Cerulli Date: 1917 Original Language: Italian
DescriptionEnrico Cerulli presented this paper at the ‘Convegno Nazionale Coloniale’, held in Naples on 26-8 August 1917, when he was only 19 years old. Only nine pages long, it deals with the problem of the relationship between political power and spiritual supremacy within Islamic thought, and consequently with the issue of the religious freedom of the peoples living in the Italian…