Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, ejusque successorum vitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran quo velut authenico legum divinarum codice Agareni & Turcae,... quae ante annos CCCC, ... D. Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis per viros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curavit. His adjunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum ... Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione... Adjuncti sunt etiam De Turcarum sive Sarracenorum ... origine ac rebus gestis a DCCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora... Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri ...qui textum emendavit et ... apposuit annotationes

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1550

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2209

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

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Scientific editor: Bibliander, Theodor (1504?-1564) Preface, etc. Melanchthon, Philippus (1497-1560) Translator : Peter the Venerable (1092?-1156) 2nd Latin edition of the Qur'an by Bibliander and Melanchton, based on the 12th century translation by Pierre le Vénérable, Robert de Ketton (Ketenensis or Retenensis) and Herman le Dalmate. Sacred book of the Muslims: the revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between 612 and 632 were not fixed until the third caliph ‘Uthmān ibn ’Affān (644-656). Written in Arabic, the language of revelation, the Qur'an consists of 114 chapters or suras (sūra), subdivided into verses (āyāt) arranged in descending order of length, corresponding to a rule of Semitic poetics.

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Marina Santana