Projekt Tefsir – wydanie krytyczne XVI-wiecznego przekładu Koranu na język polski
The Tefsir Project – critical edition of the 16th century Polish translation of Koran

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the in-house project of Czesław Łapicz and Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska, conducted under the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities: Tefsir – Philological and Historical Study and Critical Edition of the so-called Tefsir of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Second Half of the 16th Century (the first translation of Koran into Polish). The objective of the Project is the study and edition of the tefsirs of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. These were the third ever translations of Koran into European languages (after Latin and Italian), and the first one into a Slavic language, that is, Polish spoken around the northern edges of the country. It probably comes from the second half of the 16th century. It was done according to the European, biblical tradition of translating foreign texts. The work belongs to the material and cultural heritage of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is one of prime examples of the literary and religious traditions of Muslims living among Christians in the multicultural environment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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