Purchas his Pilgrimage

DBId: 469

Entry author: Emmanuelle Stefanidis

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  • 468 Samuel Purchas Priest
    • Title:

    Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation unto this present. In foure parts

    Short title

    Purchas his Pilgrimage

    Title variations

    Title in English

    Section

    Of the Arabians, Saracens, Turkes...

    Language

    English

    Creation date

    1613

    Genre

    Travel account

    Content

    Other

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    Formal Expression

    Prose

    Qur'an quotations

    Yes

    Original

    No

    Source

    Use (macro-category)

    Academic / Scientific

    Use (micro-category)

    Bibliographical references

    https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/W8V4AJZW/tags/Samuel%20Purchas/collection

    Descriptive card

    One of the earliest and most influential comparative studies of religion in early modern Europe, Samuel Purchas' work is encyclopaedic in scope. It seeks to describe religion, "the soul of the world", as lived around the world. The work is an armchair travelogue for which Purchas claimed, in his dedication, to have consulted "about a thousand authors". The book is composed of nine geographical sections. Islam is presented in the third book ("Of the Arabians, Saracesn, Turks, and of the Ancient Inhabitants of Asia MInor and of their religions"). Chapter IIII, entitled "Of the Alcoran, or Alfurcan, containing the Mahumetan law: the summe and contents thereof", offers a 10-page summary of the contents of the Qur'an, based on Bibliander's edition, which Purchas evidently read attentively.

    Entry author

    Emmanuelle Stefanidis