Title

Suratae unius atque alterius textus

Full title

Suratae unius atque alterius textum ejusque explicationem ex commentario quodam arabe dogmata Alcorani, verba maxima, minimaque explicante literatae genti ad felicius refutandum atque solidius dijudicandum, de versione tam Alcorani, quam commentatoris Muhammedanae religionis ; speciminis ergo ponebat Johannes Zechendorff scholae cygneae rector

Short Title

Suratae unius atque alterius textus

Title in English

The text of one and the other Surah and their explication, taken from a certain Arab commentary explaining the dogmas of the Qur’an, its most significant and lesser words, submitted to the learned public by Johann Zechendorff, headmaster of the Zwickau Latin for a to better refutation [of the Qur’an] and a more solid judgment of the translation and well as of the commentator of the Mohammedan religion

Printer

Göpner, Melchior

Released place

Zwickau

Released date

1647

Author

Zechendorff, Johann

Language

1069

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

101 and 103

Pages

15 fols.

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

The same home-made Arabic types used in the 1638 Specimen Suratarum.

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Asaph Ben-Tov, “Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic Studies at Zwickau’s Latin School”, in: Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, and Charles Burnett (eds.), The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017), pp. 57-92., Ben-Tov, "Johann Zechendirff", in Christian Muslim Relations. vol. 9 Western and Southern Europa (1600-1700), ed. David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden, 2017), pp. 850-5.)

Individuals

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Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov