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Dear all,
Given the interest in 'Islam in Europe', I would like to point out a
website that has been online since 2000 but may have escaped to
the attention of members of our list (I too have run itno it only
recently, and still feel the shock...)
http://utenti.lycos.it/emilioweb/index.html
Don't be deceived by the web design. The site is by Emilio Panella,
well known for his excellent studies on Riccoldo da Monte di Croce.
His website publishes a wealth of materials on (or by) Riccoldo,
Remigio dei Girolami and others, including electronic editions of
Riccoldo's famous letter from Bagdad, of his Liber peregrinationis
and of his Libellus ad nationes. Much to my regret, the writing I
myself am most interested in, Riccoldo's Contra legem sarracenorum,
is not among these electronic texts. Riccoldo was one important
missionary and traveller who transmitted knowledge of things Islamic
to the West. HIs intellectual seed (as we were speaking of
fertilisation :-) made its way also to his Florentine compatriote
Dante, who seems to have been familiar with Contra legem -- at least
according to my own study of Dante's sources -- in his presentation
of Mohammed and Ali in Inf. XXVIII.
What I find difficult to understand is why a treasure of this
spectacular quality is hidden on a Lycos website and almost buried by
Lycos ads.
Kind regards, O.
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Dr. Otfried Lieberknecht
D-40477 Duesseldorf
Klever Strasse 37
tel. +49 (0) 211 4976657
mob. +49 (0) 172 4076073
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