The Book of the Concord of the Koran or Law of Muhammad and the Evangelists

not from nebulous histories or the rhapsodies of certain people, which are common to us but entirely unheard of by our adversaries, but from the most authentic Arabic copies—a feat which, let it be said without envy among the Latin people, I have been able to achieve in three hundred years—and from those authors whose authority our adversaries cannot diminish. Indeed, I have decided to examine not only what is contained in the decrees of the law, but also by what arts, or rather by what chances, Muhumedes Muhammad came to such cunning that his dogma was so suddenly approved. I have recounted this by describing him diligently from his cradle to his death before the examination of the Alcoranus Koran. Finally, at the end of that same second book, I have pursued what misery he has brought upon this world, and how unhappily so many and such great peoples act under that pernicious dogma. Thirdly, I have deemed it necessary to evaluate what the whole world possesses, both in religious and secular law, by weighing the religions of all kinds and the consensus of all peoples from the foundation of the world. The fourth book, in the first place, relates how religions can be reconciled and changed without sedition, and firstly by what wit the Muhamediçi followers of Muhammad are to be approached, and by what cunning the truth is to be instilled without any mention of the falsity of the Alcoranus. For if anyone should remove even one iota of the Alcoranus (which is a manifest argument of falsity) and call it into doubt, he both deserves and is accustomed to suffer the most immediate death by the prescription of that same law. In the second order, I have dealt with the Ethnicos pagans/gentiles and the Indians, primarily by substituting our truths for their false ones. Indeed, in the last part of the book, I have treated the Jews with such reasons, both from nature and from Talmudicis Talmudic and those approved opinions of the learned, and by adding authority which they cannot refute, that I hope if they once read my writings in Hebrew, it will come to pass that they will either entirely strip off the man who denies that there is reason within him, or they will respect the law of Christ.