Divine Poetry? Early Modern European Orientalists on the Beauty of the Koran.
This article discusses Western attitudes to the style of the Koran from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The subject is of particular interest because the question of the Koran's aesthetic value is ultimately linked with the Islamic belief that the inimitable beauty of Muhammad's revela...
| Publicado en: | Church History & Religious Culture Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 455 - 489 |
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