Der Koran - El-Koran o, HaMikra. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Hermann (Tzvi Chaim) Reckendorff.
AUCTION 64 |
Thursday, March 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art
Lot 134
(ISLAM).
Der Koran - El-Koran o, HaMikra. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Hermann (Tzvi Chaim) Reckendorff.
Leipzig: C.W. Vollrath 1857
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,000
<<FIRST EDITION OF THE KORAN IN HEBREW.>>
This Hebrew translation of the Koran precedes Joseph Joel Rivlin’s translation (Tel-Aviv, 1936) by three-quarters of a century. Although there exist in manuscript Hebrew translations of the Koran from the 16th-century, none were executed from the Arabic original directly, but rather from Italian or Latin translations. This therefore is the very first printed translation of the Koran into Hebrew. See EJ, Vol. X, col. 1199.
The work contains an extensive introduction wherein the author points out specific themes in the Koran that stem from Rabbinic sources. The author also acknowledges his scholarly debt to Abraham Geiger’s “Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen?” (Bonn, 1833).