Title:

Histoire générale de la religion des Turcs. Avec la naissance , la vie, et la mort de leur Prophete Mahomet, et les actions des quatre premiers Caliphes qui l'ont suivi. Celles du prince Mahuvias. Et les ravages des Sarrasins en Europe aux trois premiers siecles de leurs loy. Ensemble le tableau de toute la Chreestienté a la venue de Mahomet

Short title

Histoire générale de la religion des Turcs

Title variations

Title in English

General history of the religion of the Turcs

Section

Language

French

Creation date

1625

Genre

Treatise

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

No

Source

504

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/NPS5K94Q/items/SFRMXJ27/item-list

Descriptive card

Baudier's "Histoire de la religion des Turcs" is a polemical but also an intellectually curious account of the religion of Islam, its history, theology, laws and customs. It contains a close reading of the Qur'an through Robert of Ketton's translation in Bibliander's edition (though the latter is rarely named). Book IV focuses on the Qur'anic retelling of the narratives from the Hebrew Bible. Book V examines the Qur'anic narratives of New Testament figures. A general presentation of the Qur'an is found in Chapter 1 of Book 2. Baudier used eye accounts of European captives to give a local flavour to his description of Islamic practices. His book was one of the most complete and systematic accounts of Islam in the early sixteenth century. With the emergence of a more robust and scholarly orientalism in the second half of the century, Baudier's account became outdated.

Entry author

Emmanuelle Stefanidis