Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Eastern and Western Europe: Languages, Scripts, and Messages

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Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Eastern and Western Europe

Languages, Scripts, and Messages

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Volume 11 | The European Qur'an

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The book is a collective work that addresses a critical gap in understanding the role of Islamic populations in European history through their manuscript cultures. By examining a diverse array of Islamic texts—particularly those preserved only in manuscript form—this book highlights the multifaceted interactions between Islamic and European traditions.

The volume offers case studies based on four thematic cores: cataloguing and describing manuscripts, analyzing manuscript circulation and textual traditions, studying various scripts, and conducting diachronic linguistic analyses. The chapters delve into manuscripts of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ottoman influences on South-Slavic literature, and significant Arabic texts in European collections.

This collective volume not only enriches the scholarship on European Islam but also serves as an essential resource for historians, linguists, and manuscript scholars interested in the complex legacies of multicultural exchanges in Europe.

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Katarzyna K. Starczewska, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.

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Acknowledgements

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About the authors
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Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Europe: Framing the Volume
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Katarzyna K. Starczewska

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Manuscripts of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars and Their Multilevel Multilingualism
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Andrzej Drozd

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The Catalogues of the Lithuanian Tatars’ Manuscripts: An Overview of Preserved Tefsirs
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Galina Miškinienė

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From Turkic to Slavic: Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in the Literature of the Lithuanian Tatars
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Irina Synkova

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The Critical Edition of the Slavic (Polish) Translation of the Qur’an, the Tefsir of the Tatars of the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Late Sixteenth or Early Seventeenth Century
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Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska

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“Traces of Turkish Flowers”: Islamic Manuscripts in Buda and Pest from Ottoman Times until Today
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Kinga Dévényi

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A Clue to Historical Language Ideology in the Ottoman Context: Al-Būṣīrī’s Qaṣīdatu l-Burda in South-Slavic/Bosnian
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Marijana Mišević

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Greek Literature in Arabic Script: Definition, Texts, and Characteristics
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J. L. Alexis Rivera Luque

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Multilingualism and Multigraphism in a Judeo-Christian Context. Alphabets and Languages in the “Qur’an of Flavius Mithridates” (MS Vat. Ebr. 357, fols. 51r–156r)
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Benoît Grévin

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Widmanstetter’s Corpus of Arabic Annotated Codices
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Maxime Sellin

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The Life of Muhammad and Description of the Qur’an by Michel Baudier, a French Nobleman: Description of a Polemical Anti-Islamist Treatise from the Seventeenth Century
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Maria Woźniak

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Index of Names
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Index of Manuscripts and Notable Prints
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111679150

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Qur'anic translations; Muslim Minorities in Europe; Multilingual manuscripts; Islamic textual heritage

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Scholars in Islamic studies, European history, Ottoman studies, manuscript studies, linguistics, and Tatar culture

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Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Eastern and Western Europe

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

About the authors

Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Europe: Framing the Volume

Manuscripts of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars and Their Multilevel Multilingualism

The Catalogues of the Lithuanian Tatars’ Manuscripts: An Overview of Preserved Tefsirs

From Turkic to Slavic: Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in the Literature of the Lithuanian Tatars

The Critical Edition of the Slavic (Polish) Translation of the Qur’an, the Tefsir of the Tatars of the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Late Sixteenth or Early Seventeenth Century

“Traces of Turkish Flowers”: Islamic Manuscripts in Buda and Pest from Ottoman Times until Today

A Clue to Historical Language Ideology in the Ottoman Context: Al-Būṣīrī’s Qaṣīdatu l-Burda in South-Slavic/Bosnian

Greek Literature in Arabic Script: Definition, Texts, and Characteristics

Multilingualism and Multigraphism in a Judeo-Christian Context. Alphabets and Languages in the “Qur’an of Flavius Mithridates” (MS Vat. Ebr. 357, fols. 51r–156r)

Widmanstetter’s Corpus of Arabic Annotated Codices

The Life of Muhammad and Description of the Qur’an by Michel Baudier, a French Nobleman: Description of a Polemical Anti-Islamist Treatise from the Seventeenth Century

Index of Names

Index of Manuscripts and Notable Prints

Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Eastern and Western Europe

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

About the authors

Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Europe: Framing the Volume

Manuscripts of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars and Their Multilevel Multilingualism

The Catalogues of the Lithuanian Tatars’ Manuscripts: An Overview of Preserved Tefsirs

From Turkic to Slavic: Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in the Literature of the Lithuanian Tatars

The Critical Edition of the Slavic (Polish) Translation of the Qur’an, the Tefsir of the Tatars of the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Late Sixteenth or Early Seventeenth Century

“Traces of Turkish Flowers”: Islamic Manuscripts in Buda and Pest from Ottoman Times until Today

A Clue to Historical Language Ideology in the Ottoman Context: Al-Būṣīrī’s Qaṣīdatu l-Burda in South-Slavic/Bosnian

Greek Literature in Arabic Script: Definition, Texts, and Characteristics

Multilingualism and Multigraphism in a Judeo-Christian Context. Alphabets and Languages in the “Qur’an of Flavius Mithridates” (MS Vat. Ebr. 357, fols. 51r–156r)

Widmanstetter’s Corpus of Arabic Annotated Codices

The Life of Muhammad and Description of the Qur’an by Michel Baudier, a French Nobleman: Description of a Polemical Anti-Islamist Treatise from the Seventeenth Century

Index of Names

Index of Manuscripts and Notable Prints

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