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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.
Subscriptions: Brill.com
Pachōmios Rousanos
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Pachomius Rhusanus monachus, Pachomios Roussanos, Pachomios Rouzanos Date of Birth: 11 November 1508 Place of Birth: Pigadakia, Zakynthos Date of Death: 1553 Place of Death: Diocese of Nafpaktos, Epiros
BiographyBorn in Pigadakia on the island of Zakynthos on 11 November 1508, Pachōmios Rousanos was one of the most erudite Greek intellectuals of his time, distinguishing himself as a rigorous theologian, firm polemicist, a self-taught spirit, and tireless traveller. In his youth, he frequented the monastery of St George of Z…
Pacifique de Provins
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René de l’Escalle or l’Escale, Pacificus Scaligerus, Renatus Scaligerus Date of Birth: 1588 Place of Birth: Provins Date of Death: 1648 Place of Death: Guyana
Biography When René de l’Escalle became a Capuchin monk in 1605, he took the name Pacifique de Provins. He founded the Capuchin monastery in Provins and then, as he wanted to become a missionary, asked to be sent to Turkey in 1621. After his arrival in Constantinople in 1622, he went on to Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria. A letter he sent from Constantinople on the …
Pacifique-Henry Delaporte
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Date of Birth: 1826 Place of Birth: Tripoli, Libya Date of Death: 1893 Place of Death: Paris
BiographyPacifique-Henry Delaporte was born into a family of dragomans (interpreters). His father, Jacques-Denis (1777-1861) studied at the École Spéciale des Langues Orientales, Paris, that had been founded in 1795, intending to train as a dragoman in Constantinople, but first he became one of the principle interpreters for the French Egypt Expedition (1798-1801). He then took a post as chancellor-interpreter in Tripoli…
Païsios Ligaridēs
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Pantaleone Ligaridi, Pantaleo Ligaridis, Pantaleon Ligaridius, Metropolitan Païsios of Gaza Date of Birth: Around 1609/10 Place of Birth: Chios Date of Death: 24 August 1678 Place of Death: Kiev
Biography Born in Chios the son of Giovanni Ligaridēs and Orietta Callaronis, Pantaleone Ligaridēs was admitted into the Greek College of St Athanasius in Rome in 1623, when he was about 13 years old. Thirteen years later, in the Church of St Athanasius, he received with honours a doctorate in philosophy and theology. In the same church, he was ordained priest in December 1639 by the Uniate Metropolitan of Kiev, Raphael Korsak. Soon afterwards, he left Rome, heading for Istanbul as a missionary on the pay…
Pajsije of Janjevo
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Pajsej; Pajsije Janjevac; Patriarch Paisius I of Peć Date of Birth: Unknown; probably middle of the 16th century Place of Birth: Probably the village of Janjevo (Serbian; Albanian: Janjeva), Kosovo Date of Death: 2 November 1647 Place of Death: Peć (Serbian; Albanian: Peja)
Biography There is only very scant information about Pajsije’s origins and early years befor…
Palestina
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Leandro di Santa Cecilia Date: 1753 Original Language: Italian
DescriptionThis book (with the full title
Palestina, ovvero primo viaggio di F. Leandro di S. Cecilia in Oriente, scritto dal medesimo e dedicato al merito impareggiabile dell’Altezza Serenissima del Principe reale Giuseppe d’Austria) is divided into two parts: the first (pp. 1-122) contains the account of the first of Leandro’s journeys, from the Seminario of S. Pancrazio in Rome to the Carmelite Convent of Mount Carmel, and back to Rome (1731-4), and descriptions of the places he visited in Palestine. In the second part (pp. 123-200), he collects together the observations he made during his 20 years in the Levant concerning the territories that were under Ottoman and …
Palinodia de la nephanda y fiera nación de los turcos
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Palinodia de la nephanda y fiera nación de los turcos‘Palinode on the unspeakable and fierce nation of the Turks’
Vasco Diaz de Tanco de Fregenal Date: 1547 Original Language: Castilian
Description This work, dedicated to Prince Philip, is divided into chapters that successively deal with various characteristics of the Turks (its full title is
El libro llamado Palinodia que trata de las guerras de la nefanda nació turquesca y délos Capitanes: Príncipes: Reyes: y emperadores…
Panagiōtēs Nikousios
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Panagiōtakēs Mamōnas, Panagiōtēs Vyzantios, Panaioti Nicusio, Panagiōtakēs, Panaiotachie, Panagiotes, Panagioti, Panagiotti, Panaïaoty, Panaiot, Panaioti, Panaiotti, Panajot, Panajoti, Panajotti, Panajotty, Panayotti Date of Birth: 1613 or 1621 Place of Birth: Probably Chios; possibly Constantinople or Nicosia Date of Death: 2 October 1673 Place of Death: Isaccea, Dobrogea (in present-day Romania)
Biography Panagiōtēs Nikousios’ biography is difficult to establish due to the scarcity and contradictory nature of the extant sources, especially co…
Pansebeia; or a View of all the religions of the world
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Alexander Ross, Hugh Ross, Thomas Ross Date: 1653 Original Language: English
Description Alexander Ross’s
Pansebeia, or a View of the religions of the world was first published in 1653. By the end of the century, the text had appeared in six editions (several reprinted) and in Dutch, French and German translations. The 1555, 1658 and 1664 (all Octavo or small folio) editions were bound with
Apocalypsis, ... Faithfully and Impartially translated out of the Latine by J.D. This latter work contains the lives of 17 heretics, including Muḥammad, with copperplate illustrations. Catalogue entries identify ‘JD’ as the Welsh-born Cambridge graduate John Davies (d. 1693), wh…
Paolino da San Bartolomeo
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Johann Philip Wesdin Date of Birth: 25 April 1748 Place of Birth: Hof am Leithaberge, Austria Date of Death: 7 January 1806 Place of Death: Rome
BiographyJohann Philip Wesdin (also Vesdin and Werdin) was born…
Paolo Della Cella
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Date of Birth: 13 June 1792 Place of Birth: Rezzoaglio, Genoa Date of Death: 26 May 1854 Place of Death: Genoa
BiographyPaolo Della Cella, eldest child of Luigi Maria and Antonietta Rodini, was born on 13 June 1792 in Cabanne, a hamlet in Rezzoaglio near Genoa. He received a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Genoa in 1815. However, his main interests lay in the field of botany and he studied under the supervision of Domenico Viviani, scholar of natural history and director of the botanical garden…
Paolo Piromalli
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Paolo Piromalli, Paulus Piromallus, Pūlūs Pīrmāl Date of Birth: 1591 Place of Birth: Siderno, Italy Date of Death: 1667 Place of Death: Bisignano, Italy
Biography Paolo Piromalli (1591-1667) came from Siderno in Calabria. He joined the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in around 1610, and spent the following two decades in Soriano Calabro, Naples, and Rome. In 1631, he was sent by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide to the mission in Persia and Greater Armenia, for the purpose of bringing the Armenian Orthodox popula…
Papasnâme
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Bir papas îmâna gelüb bunı te’lîf eylemişdür;, Mükâşefe-i Şeyh Abdurrahman;, Kitâb-ı mükâşefe;, Bahrü’l-mükâşefe‘The priest’s book’‘A priest came to faith and penned this’; ‘Vision of Şeyh Abdurrahman’; ‘The book of unveiling’; ‘The ocean of unveiling’
Derviş Mehmed Date: Possibly 1597-8 Original Language: Ottoman Turkish
Description This vision narrative, which foretells the future of the Ottoman dynasty and the events of the end time, exists in seven manuscripts with various titles, and is most commonly known as
Papasnâme (‘The priest’s book’). It takes up 30 folio…
Papiers de l’abbé Raynal
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Abbé Raynal Date: 1790s (exact date unknown) Original Language: French
DescriptionThese papers contain drafts and fair copies of writings on many different subjects, mainly about geography, history and trade, together with comments and corrections (for some of them) by Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis. Some of these memoirs are developments of chapters of the
Histoire des deux Indes, but Raynal seems to have been preparing a new work (never published) on the countries of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. There are descriptions of trade with…
Papiers Venture de Paradis
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Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis Date: Late 18th century Original Language: French
DescriptionVenture left several manuscripts about North Africa, as well as translations of mainly historical Arabic works and some poetry and fables. Some of these were published later, but many remain unpublished. The notes contain mainly linguistic or factual details, with occasional remarks concerning religious practices or popular superstitions. In MS NAF 9137, fols 63-82, there is a discussion of Arabic medicine, based on a manuscript described by Pétis de la Croix as…
Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books
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John Milton Date: 1667, 1674 Original Language: English
Description John Milton’s epic poem,
Paradise Lost, written in blank verse or ‘English heroic’, was first published in quarto in 1667. It was divided into ten books. The second edition in octavo followed in 1674, reorganised into 12 books (on the difference between the two editions, see R.G. Moyles,
The text of Paradise Lost, Toronto, 1985). The poem has 10,565 lines. Many editions and works of commentary have followed (see Miner, Moeck and Jablonski,
Three centuries). Several poets have produced rhyming versions. It h…
P‘ark‘ anełin astuacut‘ean
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P‘ark‘ anełin astuacut‘ean‘Glory to the uncreated Godhead’ Verse colophon on Shah Ismail’s campaigns
Karapet Bałis̆ec‘i Date: 1513 Original Language: Armenian
Description This work is a poem of 122 lines in eight syllables featuring monorhyme (in –
an) typical of the medieval Armenian tradition for extended verse narratives. Akinean and others have classified it as a lament (
ołb), but a number of factors militate against this designation. The piece was not conceived as a freestanding work and did not enter into wider circulation as a literary composi…
Parliamentary remarks on the Ottoman Empire and Muslims, and attitudes in their writings
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William Ewart Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli Date: 1876-80 Original Language: English
DescriptionThroughout their careers, the two rival politicians, the Conservative Benjamin Disraeli and the Liberal William Ewart Gladstone, both party leaders and at various times prime minister, disagreed on British policy towards the Ottoman Empire and held opposing views on Islam. Their very different perspectives clashed dramatically in 1876 following the anti-Ottoman uprising in Bulgaria (April-May), during which a…
Pʻarsadan Gorgijaniże
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Date of Birth: Around 1626 Place of Birth: Possibly Gori Date of Death: Probably after 1694 Place of Death: Possibly Isfahan
Biography Pʻarsadan Gorgijaniże was a Georgian politician and historian who followed a unique political and cultural career in the Safavid Empire. He was originally from Gori in Georgia, and since according to his own statement he was 65 when he finished a copy of his Georgian translation of
Jāmiʿ-i ʿAbbāsī in October 1691 (he had made the translation itself in 1666), he was probably born around 1626. He was apparently not of aristocratic l…
Parteniǐ Pavlović
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Partenij Pavlović; Parteniǐ Pavlovič; Partenij Pavlovič; Partenij Pavlovich Date of Birth: About 1695 Place of Birth: Silistra, present-day Bulgaria Date of Death: 1760 Place of Death: Sremski Karlovci, present-day Serbia
BiographyParteniǐ Pavlović was born around 1695 in Silistra, an Ottoman administrative centre and an Orthodox metropolitan see (the Silistra metropolitans in his lifetime were scholars, and supported local education). He studied at a Greek monastery school and took a course with a teacher from Constantinople. His biography is a vivid illustration of t…