ANDRÉS, Juan.

by Juan Andrés

£3,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

.First and only French translation of this rare and influential anti-Islamic polemic by the converted Spanish scholar Juan Andr és, first published in Spanish in 1515. This translation, by the French poet and Orientalist Guy Lef√®vre de la Boderie (1541-1598), was based on the Italian version of 1537. .Juan Andr és (active 1487 1515), was born in X‚àö‚Ćtiva, a small village in the Kingdom of Valencia. Raised as a Muslim and trained as an alfaqui (religious jurist) by his father, Andr és converted to Catholicism in 1487 and became a priest. He was sent by the monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella to preach Christianity and convert Muslims in Granada and Aragon. Andr és composed the Confusion of the Muhammadan sect as part of his mission: he explains his aims in the introduction: I determined to compose the present treatise ( ) and herein briefly to collect the fabulous fictions, ridiculous discourses, impostures, bestialities, fooleries, villainies, inconveniencies, impossibilities, and contradictions, which that wicked Muhamed dispersed in the books of his Sect ( ) and my intent in publishing it, was that even the weakest judgements may perceive that in Muhamed s Law there is not any ground or reason how it can be true (tr. adapted from the English version of 1652). .The Confusion is a critique of Islam based on Islamic sources, in 12 chapters. The author begins sketching the life of Muhammad, then presents the contents of the Quran and Sunnah, and lists a series of arguments whic

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