Title:

Spicilegium Historico-Philologicum Historiam Literariam Alcorani, sistens

Short title

Historia literaria Alcorani

Title variations

Title in English

The literary history of the Qur'an

Section

Language

Latin

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Genre

Dissertation

Content

Other

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Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

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Bibliographical references

Asaph Ben-Tov, "Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century", in: Loop and Kraye (eds.), Scholarship between Europe and the Levant: Essays in Honour of Alastair Hamilton (Leiden, 2020), pp. 195-216.

Descriptive card

The 1701 treatise by the Rostock theologian Zacharias Grapius (Grape) (1671-1713) offer a short account of the "nature" of the Qur'an, following Aristotelian categories and a brief history of European study of it.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov