Muslim-Christian Polemics and Scriptural Translation in Safavid Iran

CAli-Qoli Jadid al-Eslām and his Interlocutors

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ID9978025
AuthorsAlberto Tiburcio (0000-0002-3633-1931, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume50
Issue2
Pages247-269
Publication date2017-01-24
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIranian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00210862.2016.1233806
OpenAlexW2580754920
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article explores the work of cAli-Qoli Jadid al-Eslām (d. circa 1722), a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who embraced Islam during in the late seventeenth century. This investigation situates the work of this author within the social, political, and intellectual context of the late Safavid period. It traces the genealogy of his work as a response to the Jesuit missionary Jerome Xavier (d. 1617) and the Italian scholar Filippo Guadagnoli (d. 1656). The article examines how cAli-Qoli’s production fits within the genre of dalā’il al-nubuwwah, whereby the Bible is used as “proof” of the validity of Islam. It also analyzes the author’s use of common tropes of polemical literature, mainly that of accusing Christian scholars of practicing taḥrīf or scriptural tampering

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