Preliminaries on an Unknown Greek Translation of the Covenant of Muḥammad by Sophronios of Kilis

This study offers preliminary remarks on a hitherto unknown Greek translation of the Covenant of Muḥammad by the Patriarch Sophronios of Kilis. The translation is preserved in a single miscellaneous codex entitled Sarakēnika, which was compiled between 1770 and 1780 by the renowned Phanariot scholar...

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Main Author: Negoiță, Octavian-Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2023
In: Scrinium
Year: 2023, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-69
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBK Europe (East)
Further subjects:B Sophronios of Kilis
B Phanariot culture
B Covenant of Muḥammad
B cultural transfers
B anti-Islamic polemical literature
B Christian-Muslim relations
B Encyclopedism
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Summary:This study offers preliminary remarks on a hitherto unknown Greek translation of the Covenant of Muḥammad by the Patriarch Sophronios of Kilis. The translation is preserved in a single miscellaneous codex entitled Sarakēnika, which was compiled between 1770 and 1780 by the renowned Phanariot scholar and bibliophile Nikolaos Karatzas, a former official of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (MS Gr. 112, Princeton University Library). As the inclusion of the translation in the codex is representative of the cultural transfers that took place between the Arabic-speaking and the Greek peoples during the 17th- and 18th-century Ottoman Empire, this study examines, in particular, the knowledge regimes for the production of the text. In the Appendix, an editio princeps of the translation is provided.
ISSN:1817-7565
Contains:Enthalten in: Scrinium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18177565-bja10087