Title:

Thresor de l'histoire des langues de cest univers : contenant les origines, beautés, perfections, décadences, mutations, changemens, conversions et ruines des langues

Short title

Thresor de l'histoire des langues

Title variations

Title in English

Thesaurus of the history of languages

Section

De l’alphurcan ou alkoran de Mahomet

Language

French

Creation date

1613

Genre

Treatise

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

No

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/NIHQKMPD

Descriptive card

This is a thousand-pages long work detailing the languages known, or imagined, in Renaissance France. The chapter on the Arabic language contains a thirteen-page long section entitled "De l’alphurcan ou alkoran de Mahomet". Using a relatively nonpolemical tone, the author compiled information on Muhammad, the Qur'an and the "Mahometans" drawn from a large array of sources available to him.

Entry author

Emmanuelle Stefanidis