Title:

Dissertatio Historico-Philologico-Theologica De Alcorani prima inter Europeos Editione Arabica, ante sesquiseculum & quod excurrit, in Italia per Paganinum Brixiensem facta, sed jussu Pontificis Romani penitus abolita

Short title

De Alcorani prima inter Europeos Editione Arabica

Title variations

Title in English

An historical-philological-theological dissertation on the first Arabic edition of the Qur’an among Europeans, made by Paganino Paganini (Paganinus Bruxensis) in Italy more than a century and a half ago but obliterated completely by command of the Roman Pontiff.

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1703

Genre

Disputatio

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

No

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Ben-Tov, Glei to be added (Zotero).

Descriptive card

This is the first of three disputations by Lange concerned with the Historia Literaria of the Qur'an in Europe, chronicling the history of Qur'an scholarship -- mostly among European Christians. It is imbedded in Lange's confessional outlooks, since this dissertation retells the story of the forgotten Qur'an edition prepared in Venice in the 1530s and which Lange and his contemporaries knew about only from hearsay. He gladly retells the story of the papal decree ordering the burning of all editions of the Qur'an. Modern scholarship has convincingly shown this to have been a false accusation, yet for Lange, the Protestant orientalist, writing shortly after Ludovico Marracci's epochal Qur'an (1698), it was a welcome opportunity to portray the Catholic Church as inimical to the serious study of the Qur'an -- at least in the 1530s.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov