Against the law of the Saracens
By Fr. Riccoldo da monte di Croce, O.P.
Florence; c. 1243-1320
** composed in Florence ca. 1299-1300 ■**
** Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Florence, _
Conv. suppr_ . C 8.1173 , ff. 185r-218r**
1 | The main errors of that law
2 | What manner should be observed with them?
3 | That law is not the law of God
4 | because it has neither a style nor a manner consonant with others
5 | It does not agree in opinion with anything else
6 | In many ways he contradicts himself
7 | No miracle is attested to him
8 | It is not reasonable | - by reason of the minister | by reason of himself | by reason of the work | by reason of the end and the reward
9 | It contains open falsehoods
10 | It is violent and about those who come to the same law
11 | It is disorderly
12 | It is evil
13 | Regarding the institution of the Quran, and who was the author and inventor of that law
14 | Regarding the fiction of the most improbable visions
15 | Six common questions on the Quran, and on the pre-eminence of Christ over Muhammad 1) What did the Quran mean by so many times referring to God speaking of Himself in plural terms? 2) Who is this Holy Spirit? 3) And what is this Word of God? 4) Why do the Muslims do not read these books (sic. the Bible) nor do they expound them in schools? 5) What does Muhammad mean in the Quran when he says so often, “Believe in God and His messenger,” “obey God and His messenger,” ? [ 6)](https://www-e—theca-net.translate.goog/emiliopanella/riccoldo2/cls154.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp) Why don’t Muslims follow Christ rather than Mohammed and the Gospel rather than the Quran?
16 | On the preeminence of the gospel over the Quran.
17 | The response of the Muslims to the aforementioned