Title:

Contra perfidiam Mahometi et contra multa dicta Sarracenorum

Short title

Contra perfidiam Mahometi

Title variations

Title in English

Against Muhammad's perfidy and several sayings of the Saracens

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1451

Genre

Treatise

Content

Other

Content table

Four books

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

No

Source

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

A scholastic treatise in four books against Islam and the Qur'an written by Denis the Carthusian at Roermond at the request of Nicholas of Cusa (post 1451, ante 1461). Regarded by Cusa as less original and compelling than Juan de Segovia's treatise on Islam.

Entry author

Davide Scotto