Research Catalog

Title

Peter the Venerable and Islam.

Author

Kritzeck, James.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1964.

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Additional Authors

Conkwright, P. J. (P. Jefferson)

Description

xiv, 301 p.; 25 cm

Series Statement

Princeton oriental studies, no. 23

Uniform Title

Princeton oriental studies ; v. 23.

Subjects

• Islam > Relations > Christianity
• Christianity and other religions > Islam
• Peter, the Venerable, approximately 1092-1156

Note

• An analysis and new annotated edition of the following texts: Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum. Epistola Petri Cluniacensis ad Bernardum Claraevallis. Epistola Petri Pictavensis. Capitula Petri Pictavensis. Liber contra sectam sive haeresim Saracenorum.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Peter the Venerable -- The journey to Spain -- The crusade : a mission goal -- The project to study Islam -- The appeal to patristic authority -- The double purpose -- The translators -- The school of Toledo -- Peter of Toledo -- Peter of Poitiers -- Robert of Ketton -- Herman of Dalmatia -- Mohammed -- The translations -- MS 1162 of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal -- The Fabulae Saracenorum -- The Liber generationis Mahumet -- The Doctrina Mahumet -- The Koran -- The Epistola Saraceni and Rescriptum Christiani -- The choice and accuracy of the translations -- The summary -- The Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum -- God, Christ, and the last judgment -- Mohammed the prophet -- The Koran and its sources -- Heaven, hell, and moral precepts -- The spread of Islam -- Islam as a Christian heresy -- The value of the summary -- The refutation -- MS 381 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Souai and the Capitula of Peter of Poitiers -- The prologue -- Book one : I -- Book one : II -- Book two : I -- Book two : II -- The stature of the refutation -- Texts -- A note on the texts -- Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum -- Epistola Petri Cluniacensis ad Bernardum Claraevallis -- Epistola Petri pictavensis -- Capitula Petri Pictavensis -- Liber contra sectam sive haeresim Saracenorum.

LCCN

63018646

OCLC

ocm00625576

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Columbia University Libraries