Title:

Fides et leges Mohammaedis exhibitae ex Alkorani manuscripto duplici, praemissis institutionibus arabicis.

Short title

Fides et leges Mohammaedis

Title variations

Title in English

The Faith (or: Religion) and Laws of Muhammad shown from two Qur'an manuscripts, preceded by an Arabic Grammar.

Section

Language

Creation date

1646

Genre

Treatise

Content

Other

Content table

Institutiones (Grammar) sig. A1r-H3r / Fides et Leges Muhammedis sig. H3v-N4v.

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

The work is comprised of two parts of roughly equal length: an introduction to Arabic and the eponymous Fides et leges Mohammedi (The Faith and Laws of Muhammad). The latter comprises of six doctrinal statements (positiones), expounding a Muslim theological point and thirteen Muslim laws (leges). These are an attempt to summarise the entire teaching of Islam (as Hackspan understood it), based solely on his thorough reading of the Qur'an, from which he quotes at length. The work ends with a single page appendix with Arabic astronomical terms.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov