Abstract
This paper explores the intellectual context and learned sources of an unnoticed clandestine manuscript owned by Charles Hornby in 1701 which included a version of Henry Stubbe’s controversial Account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism and a translation of the first seven chapters of a Spanish work of Muḥammad Alguazir (fl. 1610) Apologia contra la ley Cristiana . The paper sets out to examine how both freethinking figures like Stubbe and Toland and orthodox men of learning encountered, used and challenged Islamic anti-Christian polemic. To this end it esttablishes the diverse patterns of citation and usage of «orientalist» erudition between 1650 and 1720 —focusing in particular on the great works of Hottinger and Pococke. The paper argues that freetthinkers were very capable of appropriating both Christian erudition and Islamic theology (in particular that hostile to Pauline corruption of doctrine and scriptture) to their irreligious ends.
Highlights
JUSTIN cHAMPION theology to their irreligious ends
There is, in a little examined volume held in the University of London special collections, a remarkable passage describing the Prophet’s mission
The probaable author, Henry Stubbe (d.1676?) republican controversialist, wrote, «I believe that he was a convert to the religion of the Judaiziing Xtians & did form his religion as far as possible in resemblanc-e es of theirs
Summary
JUSTIN cHAMPION theology (in particular that hostile to Pauline corruption of doctrine and scriptture) to their irreligious ends. For the purpose of exploring the encounter with Islamic traditions the manuscript was bound with a work entitled «An epistle from Achmet Ben Abdalla a learned Moor concerning the Xtian religion».
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