Title:

Mohammedis Filii Abdallae Pseudo-Prophetae Fides Islamitica, i.e. Al-Coranus ex Idiomate Arabico. quo primum a Mohammede conscriptus est, latine versus per Ludovicum Marraccium e Congregatione Cleric. Reg. Matris Dei et Innocentii XI. Papae Confessionarium, et ex ejusdem animadversionibus aliorumque observationibus illustratus et expositus, praemissa brevi Introductione et totius Religionis Mohammediae Synopsi, ex ipso Alcorano, ubique Suris et Surarum Versiculis adnotatis, congesta. Cura et Opera M. Christiani Reineccii SS. Theol. Bacc.

Short title

Mohammedis Filii Abdallae Pseudo-Prophetae Fides Islamitica, i.e. Al-Coranus

Title variations

Title in English

The Islamic Faith of the False Prophet Muhammad Son of Abdallah, i.e. The Qur’an first composed in Arabic by Muhammad, translated into Latin by Ludovico Marracci of the of the Congregation of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God and Confessor to Pope Innocent XI, and explicated with his notes and those of others, and prefaced by an introduction and a general view of the entire Mohammedan Religion from the Qur’an. Thge Suras and their verses are notes throughout

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1721

Genre

Content

Translation

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Original

No

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

In 1721 the Leipzig Hebraist Christian Reineccius published the Latin text of Ludovico Marracci's Qur'an -- omitting the Arabic text and Marraccis enormous apparatus of tafsir and his own commentary. The result was an affordable Latin Qur'an in octavo format prefaced by Reineccius' extensive introduction. The volume is dedicated to Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels (1682-1736). Shortly after the publication of this Qur’an, Reineccius would become headmaster of the Weissenfels academic gymnasium.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov