Title

Fabulae Muhammedicae

Full title

Fabulae Muhammedicae sive Nugae Alcorani, quae in eijusdem systemate integro (quod 114. capitibus constat) reperiundae commemorantur, & tam a Turcis, Mauris, Persis, Arabibus, quam aliis Orientalibus populis ut dia veritas leguntur, accipiuntur, creduntur, a Christianis vero pijs pipulo differuntur, exploduntur, reijciuntur ex manuscripto arabico fideliter versae & carminice prostitutae, ac recitatae in promotionis schalosticae actu: dominis scholarchis, ecclesiae ministris, consulibus, totoque senatu, & alijs Dd. ac Viris doctißimis praesentibus a M. Johan: Zechendorff Lesnicensi, Scholae Cygneae Rectore, 13. Augusti, Anno 1627

Short Title

Fabulae Muhammedicae

Title in English

Mohammedan Fables or the Trifles of the Qur’an, which are to be found related in its entire system (which consists of 144 chapters), and are read, accepted and believed by the Turks, Moors, Persians as well as by the Arabs and other oriental peoples yet are upbraided, hissed off and rejected by pious Christians, faithfully translated from an Arabic manuscript and set forth poetically and recited at a graduation ceremony in the presence of schoolteachers, gentlemen of the cloth, consuls, the entire senate and other most learned men, by Master Johann Zechendorff of Lößnitz, headmaster of the Zwickau school on 13 August 1627.

Printer

Meuschke, Johann

Released place

Altenburg

Released date

1628

Author

Zechendorff, Johann

Language

1067

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

17 fols.

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Asaph Ben-Tov, “Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic Studies at Zwickau’s Latin School”, in: Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, and Charles Burnett (eds.), The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017), pp. 57-92., Ben-Tov, "Johann Zechendirff", in Christian Muslim Relations. vol. 9 Western and Southern Europa (1600-1700), ed. David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden, 2017), pp. 850-5.)

Individuals

https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/76017/1

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Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov