Title

Obstoiatel'noe i podrobnoe opisanie zhizni lzheproroka Magomeda: S tochnym pokazaniem vremeni i mesta ego rozhdeniia, svoistv i pervonachal'nago sostoianiia; nachala, prichin, uspekhov i rasprostraneniia vymyshlennago im obmana, so mnogimi drugimi osoblivostiami; Sluzhashchee ob"iasneniem na mnogiia mesta ego Al Korana. Sobrannoe iz dostoverneishikh arabskikh, evreiskikh, khaldeiskikh, grecheskikh i latinskikh pisatelei slavnym doktorom Prido

Full title

A detailed and thorough description of the life of the false prophet Mahomet: With an accurate indication of the time and place of his birth, properties and initial condition; the beginning, causes, successes and the spread of his fictitious deception, with many other features; Serving as an explanation for many places of his Al Quran. Collected from the most reliable Arab, Jewish, Chaldean, Greek and Latin writers by the glorious Doctor Prideaux

Short Title

Obstoiatel'noe i podrobnoe opisanie zhizni lzheproroka Magomeda

Title in English

Printer

the Imperial Academy of Sciences

Released place

Saint Petersburg

Released date

1792

Author

Humphrey Prideaux, Petr Stepanovich Andreev

Language

73

Qur'an

Citation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

[2], 120

Further notes

Sources

The true nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/1792%20Prideaux-Andreev/collection

Individuals

Descriptive card

This is a printed version (as a separate book) of the Russian translation by Petr Andreev of Humphrey Prideaux's seminal work "The true nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet" (1697). Using the same typeset, the Russian text was also published under the title "Life of Mahomet" (Zhitie Magomedovo) as an addition to the 1792 Qur'an translation into Russian.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina