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The most accessible Qur’an in Europe
The most accessible Qur’an in Europe
Al-Coranus s. lex Islamitica Muhammedis, 1694
edited by Abraham Hinckelmann
printed by Schultzio-Schilleriana in Hamburg
The first European edition of the Arabic Qur’an (1530s) was printed for distribution in the Middle East and disappeared almost entirely, presumed destroyed. So this edition is the first to have made the Qur’an available to Arabic scholars and others in Europe, and it remained the most accessible one there for 140 years. Hinckelmann’s introduction explained the importance of knowing Arabic in order to understand Hebrew and established the foundations for the comparative Semitic philology of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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