Title:

Dissertatio inauguralis de Prima Alcorani Sura

Short title

De prima Alcorani Sura

Title variations

Title in English

An Inaugural Dissertation on the First Surah of the Qur'an

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1743

Genre

Dissertation

Content

Other

Content table

Sermo Arabicus surae primae Alcorani ex editione Hinckelmanni. Obseruatio de uoce אלקראן. Varia lectio nominis שורה. Quem uirum doctum Acoluthus scholio suo reprehenderit? Varia lectio uocis פאתחה. Varietas lectionis uocabuli אלכתאב. Lectio uaria uocis שבעה. Varietas lectionis uocis איאת. De lectione uocis מדינה. Argumentum surae I ex uariis libris proponitur, et quaedam de titulis surarum traduntur. De lectione et scriptura uoce בשם. De scriptura uocis אללה. De nominis אלרחמן scriptura. De lectione uaria uocis עיר. Vatietas lectionis et scripturae uocabuli אמין. Explicatio uocis אלקראן. De nominibus quibusdam Alcorani. Exponitur nomen שורה. De uoce פאתחה et nominibus synonymis primae surae. Illustratur uox איאת. Exlicatio uocabuli מדינה. Positio urbium Medinae et Meccae. Explicatur formula בשם אללא. Nota de uocabulo אללא. De phrasi אלרחמן אלרחים. Obseruatio de uoce רב. Explicatio nominis עאלמין. Quid sid יום אלדין? Quid significet אלמשתקים? Enodatur phrasis גיר מגצוב. De uocabulis מגצוב et אלצאלין. Variae Latinae uersiones surae primae. Pleraeque Alcorani surae non simul totae a Mohammede sunt editae, quibus tamen prima non uidetur esse accensenda. De numero septenario uersuum, ac mysteriis, surae primae, itemque de uocalibus, et numeris uersiculorum, Alcorani. De formula bismillahi. De stilo et arg. surae primae. De frequenti recitatione huius surae apud Mohammedanos, et huius recitationis utilitate.

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

The dissertation was presented on 8 May 1743 at the philosophical faculty of the University of Altorf by a certain Jakob Christoph Wilhelm Holste to obtain the degree of magister artium. He seems to have later pursued an ecclesiastical career in the Lutheran Church. Holste may have had a hand in composing the work. This is a detailed treatment of the first Surah. Mostly unoriginal, it offers an extensive summary of the existing European scholarship on this Surah. The Arabic text follows Abraham Hinckelmann's Qur'an edition (1694), which is produced in Hebrew transliteration.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov