Title:

هذا مصاحبة روحانية بين العالمين واسم واحد منهما شيخ سنان واسم الاخر احمد العالم التي كانت في رجوعهما من الكعبة نافعة لكل مسلم ومسلمة

Short title

مصاحبة روحانية

Title variations

Title in English

This is a spiritual conversation between two scholars, the name of one of them is Shaykh Sinān and the name of the other is Aḥmad, which took place during their return from the Kaʻba; it is useful to every Muslim man and woman

Section

I-III

Language

Arabic

Creation date

1560

Genre

Disputatio

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Apologetic

Use (micro-category)

Apology of Christianity

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/559HTU6W/tags/Mu%E1%B9%A3%C4%81%E1%B8%A5aba%20r%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5%C4%81niyya/collection

Descriptive card

The work is arguably attributed to the Jesuit Giovanni Battista Eliano, and most likely published in Rome at the Printing House of the Collegio Romano before 1580. It consists of three dialogues in incorrect Arabic between two Muslims returning from their pilgrimage to Mecca. These discuss a series of issues about the Qurʼan, with direct quotation of the text, discovering many contradictions in it; this leads them to conclude that Christians possess the true Revelation and the authentic Scriptures. The three dialogues are rhetorically set up to prove the truth of Christianity using the Qurʼan itself, even if they reveal a poor knowledge of Islamic theology. Given the numerous witnesses (printed and manuscript) and translations of the text, it is possible that this was part of the didactic equipment used in the Roman colleges during the XVI c. for the training of missionaries and the formation of Oriental Christians. The work is known in two different recensions, one of which includes an introduction (not in the printed edition) mentioning the year in which the conversation should have taken place (940 H/1534 AD) and the (pseudo-)author of the work, a certain Aḥmad al-Tanūsī, one of the two speakers (the other one is named Shaykh Sinān al-Miṣrī).

Entry author

Sara Fani