Title:

Dissertatio de Mohammedismo ante Mohammedem

Short title

De Mohammedismo ante Mohammedem

Title variations

Title in English

A Dissertation on Mohammedanism before Muhammad.

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1718

Genre

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

As the title suggest, this (unusually long) academic dissertation by David Mill, "excavates" beliefs and practices which the author identifies as Muslim in pre-Muslim times. This serves the polemical argument, that Muhammad had "merely stolen" his religion form earlier sources -- a common Christian polemical argument -- at the same time it offers a learned, and by the standards of the day a very thorough study of the religious world of Late Antiquity (a modern term Millius was not acquainted with) in which Islam emerged. This dissertation has been preserved in a collection of David Mill's dissertation published in 1743, without indication of the original year of composition and publication.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov