Peter the Venerable and Islam

James Aloysius Kritzeck

Princeton University Press, 2016

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For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin translations of five Arabic works, including the first translation of the Koran in a western language. Known as the Toledan Collection, it was eventuall

ISBN-13
9780691651422
ISBN-10
0691651426
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-04-19
Pages
316
Dimensions
235x152x
Weight
595