Title:

Disputatio de Muhammedismo

Short title

De Muhammedismo

Title variations

Title in English

On Mohammedanism

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1648

Genre

Disputatio

Content

Other

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Prose

Qur'an quotations

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Bibliographical references

Leenert Jan Joosse, in Christian-Muslim Relations vol.8 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), s.v. (with bibliography)

Descriptive card

This disputation was written by Gisbert(us) Voetius in 1648 and included in the 1655 second volume of his collected academic writings. The respondens at the 1648 disputation in Utrecht was Joann de Jonge. See, "De Muhammedismo" in Gisbert Voetius, Selectarum Disputationum Theologicarum ars Secunda (Utrecht, 1655),pp. 659-83. This disputation offers a summary of Gisbert's understanding of Islam -- whic, not surprisingly, he flatly rejects, yet considers closer to Christianity than Judaism and ancient paganism, and considers practical questions concerning mission. It evinces knowledge of the Qur'an as well as the author's direct comments on it and its European renderings.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov