Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History: No. XLI

Zofia A. Brzozowska; Mirosław J. Leszka; Teresa Wolińska

doi:10.18778/8220-341-7

Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History

No. XLI

Zofia A. Brzozowska

University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, Department of Slavic Studies, 171/173 Pomorska St., 90-236 Łódź (Poland)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5951-3781 (unauthenticated)

Mirosław J. Leszka

University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute of History, Department of Byzantine History, 27a Kamińskiego St., 90-219 Łódź (Poland)

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2643-4520 (unauthenticated)

Teresa Wolińska

University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute of History, Department of Byzantine History, 27a Kamińskiego St., 90-219 Łódź (Poland)

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2927-8922 (unauthenticated)

Series: Byzantina Lodziensia

ISBN Łódź University Press

ISBN-13 (15) 978-83-8220-341-7

ISBN (e-book) Łódź University Press

ISBN-13 (15) 978-83-8220-342-4

ISBN Jagiellonian University Press

ISBN-13 (15) 978-83-233-4943-3

ISBN (e-book) Jagiellonian University

ISBN-13 (15) 978-83-233-7190-8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-341-7

Keywords: Muhammad, Islam, Byzantine-Slavic Literary, Bibliographical History

Published: March 24, 2020

Categories: History, Open Access

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The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary, compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area (especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus’). Therefore, it presents the works written in the Church Slavic language between the 9th and the mid-16th centuries. As the Old Rus’ discourse on Islam was shaped under the overwhelming influence of Byzantine literature, the majority of the presented sources are Byzantine texts from the 6th–14th centuries, translated into the literary language of the Orthodox Slavs. The reader will also find here a discussion on several relics, originally created in other languages of the Christian East (Syriac, Arabic) and the West (Latin), which – through the Greek – were assimilated on the Slavic ground.

This book aims to fill a gap in previous studies on inter-religious polemics in the Middle Ages, which has usually focused on Christian-Muslim cultural relations, analyzing Greek and Latin texts or the works written in one of the Middle Eastern languages, almost completely ignoring the Church Slavic heritage. It is worth noting that a number of the texts presented here (as well as Slavic translations of Byzantine sources) have not been published so far. The information on them, provided in this monograph, is therefore the result of research conducted directly on the manuscript material.

This publication represents a very high professional level. It is a unique, pioneering achievement that raises the level of knowledge about the reception of Old Rus’ literature until the mid-16th century in the context of what had been written about the prophet Muhammad and the birth of Islam in the 7th century. The discourse is very specific, consistent, diligent, meticulous, yet not “verbose”. The analysis of the cited literature clearly shows that the state of research on individual works is well known to the authors and that this review includes the most recent findings.

Prof. Zdzisław Pentek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Brzozowska, Zofia A., Mirosław J. Leszka, and Teresa Wolińska. 2020. Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History: No. XLI. Byzantina Lodziensia. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-341-7.

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