Resumen de On the Origin and Aim of the Translator of the Early Greek Qu’ran

Christian Hogel

• The article discusses what origin or background the translator of the early (medieval) Greek translation of the Qur’an may have had. A few extant fragments of the translation have an inconsistent use of the iḍāfa (genitive) construction, but the article argues that the variation falls within the usual when translating between Arabic and Greek. Furthermore, it is suggested that the manuscript that the Byzantine excerpter, Niketas Byzantios, worked on the basis of, may have been a bilingual (Arabic and Greek) manuscript.