Pico della Mirandola by Francesco Borghesi & Michael Papio & Massimo Riva

Author:Francesco Borghesi & Michael Papio & Massimo Riva [Borghesi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

2 Pico was studying Arabic under the guidance of Flavius Mithridates. See his letter to Corneus (Pico 1971, Opera omnia 1:376–79). Cf. Pico’s Epistle to Ficino from Fratta and his Epistle to Corneus of 15 October 1486.

3 Various hypotheses have been formulated about the identity of this Abdallah: Tognon (Pico 1987, 62) and Cicognani (Pico 1941, 97) identify him with ‘Abd-Allh ibn al-Muqaffa‘, an Arabic writer of the eighth century and a translator of Persian works into Arabic; Bausi (Pico 2003, 2) identifies him with ‘Abd-Allh ibn Salam, a Jew of Medina who converted to Islam two years before the death of Mohammed (630) after recognizing the identity of the Koran and the Torah. According to tradition, he collaborated in the writing of the Koran and was one of the four Jews who interrogated Mohammed himself on one hundred theological questions (Doctrina Machumeti); cf. Bibliander (1543) and Nicholas of Cusa (1971, 718, 733). Piemontese (2012) identifies him as ‘Abd-Allh b. al Tamir, head of the Christian community of Nagran (Yemen) and famous in medieval Islamic literature because of his martyrdom in 523 AD.

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