Title:

Dialogi contra Iudaeos

Short title

Dialogi contra Iudaeos

Title variations

Dialogi contra Iudaeos

Title in English

Dialogues against the Jews

Section

Titulus V

Language

Creation date

1110

Genre

Content

Other

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

No

Source

Risālat al-Kindī

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/JRLQELTX/items/WZQT6VDX/collection

Descriptive card

One of the most widely read and used of any medieval anti-Jewish and anti-Islamic text, the Dialogi contra Iudaeos (and within them, the Titulus Quintus) represent a crucial turning-point in Christian portrayal of Islam and Judaism in medieval Europe. For the first time, polemics grounded on the Talmud and the Qur’an, interpreted as two illicit pseudo-revelations which formed the bases for two heretical doctrines. Both Talmud and Qur’an, for Alfonsi, could be attacked through scriptural and rational scientific argumentation.

Entry author

Irene Reginato