The Qur’an in Rome: Manuscripts, Translations, and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Catholicism

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1 Italian Humanists
Traces of the Qur’an in the Books of Cardinal Domenico Capranica. An Investigation of BAV MS Vat. Lat. 7317
The Qur’an of Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada: The Arabic Versions of Suras 21 and 22 in BAV MS Urb. Lat. 1384
Printing the Qur’an in Rome: From the Typographia Medicea to Marracci’s Paduan Edition
2 Europe, Rome, and the Orient
A Qur’anic Compendium in Spanish for Use by the Inquisition (BNE MS 2076)
George Strachan of the Mearns
Rome as a Hub of Arabic Studies in the 17th Century: A View from Vienna
Across Confessional Boundaries. Bibliander’s Alcoran-Edition in Catholic Europe
Marsili, the Inquisition and Oriental Studies in Bologna
3 Discalced Carmelites and Franciscans
From Rome to the East: An Analysis of the Main “Roman” Anti-Islamic Sources of the De procuranda salute omnium gentium (1613)
Dominicus Germanus de Silesia in Rome: The Roman Prodromes of a Future Qur’an Translator
4 The Society of Jesus and Islam
A Solitary Jesuit Scholar and the Qur’an: The Translation and Commentary of Ignazio Lomellini
The Islamicate Occult Library of Athanasius Kircher
The Qur’an and the Arabic Language in the Writings of Baldassarre Loyola Mandes S.J. (1631–1667). Between Islamic Reminiscence and Catholic Controversy
Praxis conuertendi Mahumetanos. Tirso González de Santalla’s Manuductio
5 Ludovico Marracci
A Harmony of Intent: Bishop Gregorio Barbarigo (1625–1697) and Ludovico Marracci (1612–1700)
The Role of Greek and Latin Auctores in Ludovico Marracci’s Alcorani Textus Universus
From dīn, milla, umma to religio, secta, superstitio: Marracci’s Latin-Arabic for “Religion” – A Lexical Analysis within the Historical Framework of the European History of the Modern Concept of Religion
List of Contributors
Index