Early German Efforts in Printing Holy Qur\u2019an Marked by Interest and Controversy
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The 17th century witnessed the first German attempts to print the Holy Qur\u2019an, reflecting both scholarly interest and contentious attitudes among early European orientalists. In 1694, Protestant cleric and university professor Abraham Hinckelmann published the first complete printed Arabic edition of the Holy Qur\u2019an in Hamburg. <\/p>\n
The 560-page volume included English marginal notes but contained several inaccuracies, such as errors in surah titles and missing verses. The edition also described the Prophet Muhammad as a \u201cfalse prophet\u201d on its title page, underscoring a hostile perspective. <\/p>\n
Surviving copies are preserved in research institutions, including the King Faisal Center in Riyadh. Further contributions came in the 19th century when German orientalist Gustav Fl\u00fcgel published another edition in Leipzig in 1834. He later reissued it multiple times until 1869 and compiled an index titled Stars of the Qur\u2019an in 1842.<\/p>\n
While widely used in academic circles, Fl\u00fcgel\u2019s edition deviated from the Ottoman script tradition, mixed Qur\u2019anic readings, and included errors in verse counts. Researchers note that these early printings reveal the complex interplay of scholarship and distortion in Europe\u2019s engagement with Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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