Die Verwendungsweise der griechischen Koranübersetzung durch Niketas von Byzanz
The article sheds light on the methods used by Nicetas of Byzantium (9th century) to utilize the Greek translation of the Qur᾿ān in his Refutation of the Qur᾿ān. The research results presented here are based on a full analysis of all Qur᾿ānic fragments preserved in Nicetas' anti-Islamic polemic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Peeters
2022
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Byzantion
Year: 2022, Volume: 92, Pages: 491-519 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages |
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| Summary: | The article sheds light on the methods used by Nicetas of Byzantium (9th century) to utilize the Greek translation of the Qur᾿ān in his Refutation of the Qur᾿ān. The research results presented here are based on a full analysis of all Qur᾿ānic fragments preserved in Nicetas' anti-Islamic polemic and on a philological and contextual comparison of the Greek translation as preserved in the Vat. gr. 681 with all Qur᾿ānic readings. It shows that specific alterations of the Arabic Qur᾿ān in its Greek translation, as handed down in Nicetas' work, repeatedly recur with the same patterns and within similar contexts. All of them facilitate polemics against the Qur᾿ān as a holy scripture and are easily to achieve without changing the formulations of the translation as such. The paper presents different categories of modifications with respect to the Arabic Qur᾿ān, such as the combination of verses, exclusion of key words, interpretation of Qur᾿ānic passages, etc., which are believed to go back to Nicetas while using the nowadays lost Greek translation of the Qur᾿ān. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-6209 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Byzantion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.92.0.3291261 |