Title:

Deus orbus saracenorum e pseudo-prophetae Muhammedis Alkurano prolectus, & suismet armis oppugnatus

Short title

Deus orbus saracenorum

Title variations

Title in English

The bereft (childless) god of the Saracens taken from the Alcoran of Muhammad the False Prophet and assailed with his own weapons

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1622

Genre

Dissertation

Content

Other

Content table

Praefatio I. Muhamedani fatentur Deum, Potentem, Sapientem, Unum. II. Diffitentur Trinitatem Personarum. III. Imprimis Filium Dei abnegant IV. Iesum quidem pro sancto, verace, magnoque Prophetâ agnoscunt. V. Sed tamen pro mero Homine habent. VII. Primo, quod sit sine Patre conceptus. VIII. Secundo, quod sit incarnatus Dei Spiritus. IX. Tertio, quod locutus fuerit ab utero matris. X. Quatro quod animârit argillaceas aviculas. Corrolaria

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

This 1622 treatise, presented in Tübingen as a dissertation by a theology student by the name of Johann Falco is Schickard's attempt to characterise the Qur'anic concept of God. It is a seventeenth-century work of confessional scholarship and full of the expected polemics against Islam, yet betrays a serious study of the Qur'an, which is quoted in Arabic and a serious attempt to understand Muslim concepts of God -- however polemical.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov