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The Medieval Church · c. 1370–1375

Apologies and Orations Against Islam

John VI Kantakouzenos · c. 1292–1383

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What it is

A former emperor's refutation of Islam, drawing on the Latin Qur'an translation and on earlier Greek polemic, written as the Ottomans crossed into Europe.

Why it lasted

The last substantial Byzantine engagement with Islam, produced by a monk who had once allied with the Turks himself.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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