February 2, 2023 - In comparing Muslims and Catholics, Luther uses the religious fervor and discipline of the Turks as a means of discrediting what he perceived to be dead legalistic traditions of Catholicism. A cursory reading of Luther’s preface may lead one to conclude that he had softened his views on Islam from some of his previous writings.

August 7, 2025 - On War Against the Turk (German: Vom Kriege wider die Türken) was a book written by Martin Luther in 1528 and published in 1529. It was one of several pamphlets and sermons by Martin Luther about Islam and resistance to the Ottoman Empire, during the critical period of territorial expansion ...

October 19, 2022 - This article discusses the Islamophobic views (radical anti-Islamic polemics) of Martin Luther (1483-1546). The views were formed against the backdrop of Luther's confrontations with the Roman Catholic Church and his stance against the Turkish military advances in Europe.

III. PREFACE TO THE QUR’AN OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY ... Christ might be celebrated against the devil and his instruments. While the son of · God was hanging on the cross, the whole world of nature testified with novel and

September 3, 2024 - Scholars note that Martin Luther inherited a critical and polemical view of Islam from the Middle Ages. Despite the limited exposure of the Sixteenth-century reformers to Islam, Luther’s viewpoints on Islam revolved around theological and social considerations.[4] Luther expressed two specific concerns about Islam: firstly, the translation of the Qur’an into Latin, and secondly, the moral values of Muslim society.

Martin Luther (1483-1546) lived at an important juncture during the long and tortuous history of the conflict between Islam and Europe. Scholars have long focused on his apocalyptic interpretation of the rise of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, but only a few have probed deeper into his thought on Islam.

December 22, 2016 - About the time of the siege of Vienna, Luther also began to view the Turkish threat as an apocalyptic threat. He was convinced that the rise of the Turks was foretold in the eschatological prophecies in scripture, especially Daniel 7. He also believed that, while the Turks would be successful for a time, their days were numbered as the last days were soon approaching. Until then, Christians needed to be warned about the dangers of Islam.

Rather, he was primarily interested in encouraging Christians to ‘repent, love the gospel, and be obedient to their authorities’ as a way of dealing with the threat of the Ottoman Turks.9 This study will demonstrate that Luther’s approach towards Islam was much more theological and apologetic than is generally acknowledged.10 As such, his thoughts and writings on the Turks and their religion deserve more attention in the history of Christian perceptions of and responses to Islam, for, in his unique attacks on Islam as well as his assimilation of apologetic material from previous centuries, he put forward his own subtly-nuanced approach towards the Muslim world.11 8 Ludwig Hagemann, Martin Luther und der Islam (Altenberge: Christlich-Islamisches Schrifttum, 1998), 16, 33–34.

November 11, 2025 - Martin Luther regarded the Ottomans as the instrument of "God's wrath against Europe's sins", but opposed that empire's religion as "false". In his 1528 pamphlet, On War against the Turk, he criticized the principles of Islam as "utterly despicable and blasphemous" and called on Germans to ...

We hear a lot these days about the necessity for becoming more educated about Islam, as if a fuller acquaintance with the Islamic faith would make the Legions of the Prophet seem less threatening and dangerous. We can see from these excerpts that the opposite is the case. Martin Luther was very well-educated in the scripture of the Mohammedans, and it only served to confirm to him that their religion was in fact demonic, a worldly manifestation of pure evil.

MLK was an Islamophobe who actively collaborated with Zionist organizations including the American Jewish Congress. He was also influenced by Hindu extremist, Islamophobe, Zionist and pervert Mohandas G...

September 30, 2007 - Martin Luther (1483-1546) lived at an important juncture during the long and tortuous history of the conflict between Islam and Europe. Scholars have long focused on his apocalyptic interpretation of the rise of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, but only a few have probed deeper into his thought on Islam.

August 6, 2022 - I have some parts of Mohammed’s Koran which in German might be called a book of sermons or doctrines of the kind that we call pope’s decretals. When I have time I must translate it into German so that everyone may see what a foul and shameful book it is. In the first place, he greatly praises...

CHAPTER 7 - EXPOSING MUHAMMAD AND THE QUR'AN IN GERMAN: LUTHER'S POLEMICAL-APOLOGETIC AGAINST ISLAM The Occasion and Purpose of Luther's Verlegung des Alcoran Luther's Attack on the Qur'an Luther's Demonstration of Christian Truth from the Qur'an · CHAPTER 8 - THE FAITH OF ADAM AND INVENTION OF MUHAMMAD: LUTHER'S APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Christian Apologetics vis-a-vis Islam A Sermon for the Ecclesia Facing the Claims of Islam Muhammad's Innovation and the Defence of the Christian Religion CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY. ... Martin Luther (1483-1546) lived at an important juncture during the long and tortuous history of the conflict between Islam and Europe.

He condemns as well the Islamic practice of polygamy.43 On the other side he · praises the prohibition of adultery and of the desire for the wife of someone ... Muslims on this issue, and increasingly as he grows older. In the text Martin · Luther’s Refutation, an afterword to Ricoldo’s Verlegung des Alcoran, he states

July 22, 2019 - The article compares for the first time Luther‘s reflections on Islam with Cusanus‘s. Both thinkers didn‘t engage in Islam on their own initiative, but because they were prompted by political developments. Luther‘s writings on Islam are mostly authored in German.

September 5, 2017 - This is what Luther says about the advice he offered: “If it helps, it helps; if it does not, then may our dear Lord Jesus Christ help, and come down from heaven with the Last Judgment and strike down both Turk and pope, together with all tyrants and the godless, and deliver us from all sins and from all evil. Amen” (p.205). It is to this King that we shall turn to in Part 2, as we learn from Luther what Christians in particular should do when faced with the threat of Islam.

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October 26, 2022 - Martin Luther cut a figure of such massive importance that reflections on him are a Rorschach test for theologians and historians alike. In few instances have personality and principle been so melded. If the Dominican Aquinas argued contra and sed contra, the former Augustinian would settle his case by slapping the table: “Dr.