Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—History [Browse]
• Early printed books [Browse]

Related name

• IDC Publishers [Browse]

Summary note

Collection contains all Arabic Koran editions printed in Europe before 1850, as well as all complete translations directly from the Arabic (until about 1860). Among the secondary translations, only those into German and Dutch are offered completely. Other translations will follow in the third installment, which will also feature several variants of the first published Latin translation of the Koran from 1543. Of the partial editions, only the typographically or academically most interesting ones are presented here.

Notes

Title from home page (viewed July 29, 2009).

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Language note

Texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Dutch, French, German, Urdu and English.

Other title(s)

• Koran printing in the West, 1537-1857
• Primary sources, early Western Korans
• Early printed Korans

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