Name

Martin Luther

Original name

Luder

Main activity

Theologian

Secondary activity

Title

Doctor

Name variations

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Education place

Erfurt

Education institution

University of Erfurt

Activity place

Wittenberg

Activity institution

University of Wittenberg

Activity start date

1508

Activity end date

1546

Place of birth

Eisleben

Date of birth

1483

Place of death

Eisleben

Date of death

1546

Bibliographical references

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There is an enormous body of scholarship on Luther. For a superb recent biography see Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (London, 2016). On Luther and Islam there is a growing literature. See e.g. Hartmut Bobzin, Der Koran im Zeitalter der Reformation: Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Arabistik und Islamkunde in Europa (Stuttgart, 1995). Adam S. Francisco, Martin Luther and Islam: a study in sixteenth-century polemics and apologetics (Leiden, 2007). idem, “Martin Luther”, in: David Thomas and John Chesworth (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 7. Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600) (Leiden, 2015), pp. 225-34. Thomas Kaufmann, „Türckenbüchlein“- Zur christlichen Wahrnehmung „türkischer Religion“ in Spätmittelalter und Reformation (Göttingen, 2008).

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov