Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 6
4. The Qurʾān in European History and Culture: an Introduction 9
5. The Latin Tradition of the Qurʾān 23
6. Muslim Minorities in Iberia and Central Europe 37
7. The Qurʾān as Turkish Booty (Türkenbeute) 55
8. The Qurʾān and Christian Polemics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century 67
9. Printing the Qurʾān 83
10. The Qurʾān and European Literature: a Romantic Discovery 95
11. Colonialism and the Qurʾān 111