Lex Mahometi Die Erfolgsgeschichte eines vergleichenden Konzepts der christlichen Religionspolemik

Polemical Comparisons in Discourses of Religious Diversity: Conceptual Remarks and Reflexive Perspectives

“…Such a history of concepts attentive to translations and the creative potential of "misunderstandings" can help further the study of entanglements and global connections. 39 Remarkably, it is from the context of religious polemics that early hints at an entangled conceptual history emerge: Reinhold Glei, Stefan Reichmuth, and Matthias Tischler, for instance, have suggested that the ascent of the term lex in descriptions of both Christian orders and non-Christian beliefs can be connected to its prominent usage in the Corpus Toletanum as a translation of the Arabic term din (see Glei and Reichmuth 2012;Tischler 2014;Wiegers 2013, 485-88). 40 Thirdly, the study of polemical comparisons can also contribute to the dismantling of long-[27] standing narratives still influential in the field, that is, above all, of secularisation narratives with their much criticised yet persistent connection between knowledge and tolerance (see e.g.…”