The European Qurʾān

Encounters with the Holy Text of Islam from the Ninth to the Twentieth Century

Jan Loop, Naima Afif, Weltmuseum Wien

• Publisher: dG Arts
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9783689240257
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Arte general

What role does the Holy Scripture of Islam, the Qur??n, play in the history of European thought? How has it been read and understood in Europe since the first translations in the Middle Ages? The Qur??n and Islam are traditionally seen as an antithesis to Europe's self-narrative of cultural achievements: the Enlightenment, secularization, and religious tolerance. Some claim that Islam in general and the Qur??n in particular are alien to Europe's culture and political institutions. This publication endeavours to counter this popular belief and to tell a different story by documenting the role the Qur??n has played in the formation of culture, religion, scholarship, and politics in Europe.

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Exhibition Weltmuseum Wien
September 18, 2024 to August 24, 2025

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• The Qurʾān in European History and Culture: an Introduction
• The Latin Tradition of the Qurʾān
• Muslim Minorities in Iberia and Central Europe
• The Qurʾān as Turkish Booty (Türkenbeute)
• The Qurʾān and Christian Polemics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
• Printing the Qurʾān
• The Qurʾān and European Literature: a Romantic Discovery
• Colonialism and the Qurʾān