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

Thus I am forced, as I have already said, to go into exile and seek foreign nations, to whom it certainly turns out happily that I am more beloved than to my own countrymen, so that it is perpetually established that no one is a prophet in his own country. Long ago, when my books were barely finished, the most learned and kind Ioannes Oporinus, who for a long time acted as a public lecturer in Basilea Basel in the supreme crown of learned men, asked by letter that I send them to him; finally, through the malevolence of some and so that he might be more attentive to private business, he turned himself to τυπογραφίαν typography and διόρθωσιν correction. He had printed my Magistratus Atheniensium Magistrates of the Athenians, in which I remember Turkish and Muhammadan matters written by me in French long ago. He therefore contended in most friendly letters that I should send those histories and anything else that might be in hand to him, and I defrauded both the friend and the republic of the edition of those books for eight months now, by one method of mine of needing to be approved by the theologians. If I had sent them to him then, I would already be equipped for the journey. Now, however, I have decided, although a year and a half will at least be lost to me because of six months, to destine the three later ones to him. Furthermore, because in the fourth book I dealt with the Ceneuangelistas Empty-gospellers at the end so that I would not omit any nation acting outside the concord of the church, it is not my intention to send to him that part of the work, which would not be sufficiently approved by the Germans, and perhaps it would stir up envy against him because he would be emitting into the light what acts against the laws received in their republic. It seemed good, therefore, to publish that part at my own expense and to make it public among my own people, since it would have proceeded little safely there, where one is not even allowed to mutter against the customs recently introduced, which is common to them and the Sarracenis Saracens.