This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny's selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further selection. In the 12th century, as she shows, a serious effort was for the first time made to learn something of the reality behind the fabulous and scurrilous stories about Muhammad and Islam. A collection of translations from Arabic, including the Koran, was commissioned in 1140 by Peter the Venerable of Cluny, and d'Alverny found the manuscript in which his secretary wrote these out. This discovery led her to explore other translations into Latin of the Koran and other Islamic texts, to identify the work of the translators Hermann of Carinthia, Robert of Ketton and Mark of Toledo, and to depict the milieu in which this work was possible.
| ISBN: | 9780860784401 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 1994 |
| Author: | MarieThérèse d Alverny, Charles Burnett |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies |
| Genres: |
Islam History of religion History and Archaeology |
This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny's selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further selection. In the 12th century, as she shows, a serious effort was for the first time made to learn something of the reality behind the fabulous and scurrilous stories about Muhammad and Islam. A collection of translations from Arabic, including the Koran, was commissioned in 1140 by Peter the Venerable of Cluny, and d'Alverny found the manuscript in which his secretary wrote these out. This discovery led her to explore other translations into Latin of the Koran and other Islamic texts, to identify the work of the translators Hermann of Carinthia, Robert of Ketton and Mark of Toledo, and to depict the milieu in which this work was possible.
La Connaissance De l'Islam Dans L'occident Medieval features in the following genres: Islam, History of religion, History and Archaeology
La Connaissance De l'Islam Dans L'occident Medieval is available in Hardback
La Connaissance De l'Islam Dans L'occident Medieval was written by MarieThérèse d Alverny, Charles Burnett and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
La Connaissance De l'Islam Dans L'occident Medieval has 344 pages
Yes it is part of Variorum Collected Studies series
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