Vita Mahometi
''Vita Mahometi'' or ''Vita Machometi'' (Latin for 'life of Muhammad') may refer to: *''Vita Mahumeti'' of Embrico of Mainz (late 11th century) * ''Vita Machometi'' (Adelphus) (12th century) * ''Vita Mahometi'' (Uncastillo) (early 13th century) *''Vita Machometi'' (Pisa), better known as ''Where Wicked Muhammad Came From'' (late 13th century) See also *Latin biographies of Muhammad A number of Latin biographies of Muhammad were written during the 9th to 13th centuries. Overview The earliest Latin biographies originated in Spain before the mid-9th century. They had a limited circulation and influence. All other Latin biogra ...

Embrico Of Mainz
Embrico of Mainz (''Embricho Moguntinus'') is the author of the ''Vita Mahumeti'', a Latin biography of Muhammad. The text is in rhyming leonine hexameters, extending to 1,148 lines. It was modelled on the verse hagiography of contemporaries such as Hildebert of Le Mans. It was most likely written between 1072 and 1090. The author of the ''Vita'' has been identified with the future provost of Mainz Cathedral, Embricho II. Embrico's text is roughly contemporary with the ''Dei gesta per Francos'' by Guibert of Nogent Guibert de Nogent (c. 1055 – 1124) was a Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographical memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries. He has only recently caught the .... Both texts are in the tradition of the ''Chronographia'' of Theophanes the Confessor, including the account of Muhammad's epilepsy and his body being eaten by pigs after his death.Nicholas Morton, ''Encountering Isl ...
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Vita Machometi (Adelphus)
The ''Vita Machometi'' is a Latin biography of Muḥammad written by a certain Adelphus in the early to mid-12th century. Nothing is known of the author but what he reveals about himself in the ''Vita''. This includes that he had heard the Muslim call to prayer and had conversed with a Greek about Islam while staying in Antioch on a return trip from Jerusalem. Taken together, these facts suggest that he may have been a participant in the First Crusade. He seems to have had a biblical and classical education. He may have been a Benedictine abbot.According to , the 15th-century writer Johannes Trithemius cited a certain ''Contra Sarracenos liber'' ('Book against the Saracens') written by a Benedictine abbot named Adelphus, which may be the ''Vita''. The ''Vita'' is a polemical account of Muḥammad's life based, so Adelphus claims, on the account of the Greek from Antioch. It contains a mixture of actual knowledge of Islam and imaginary and folkloric accounts of its origins ...
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Vita Mahometi (Uncastillo)
The ''Vita Mahometi'' ('life of Muḥammad') is a short Latin biography of Muḥammad composed in 1221–1222. It is preserved in a single manuscript, now códice 10 in the in Uncastillo. It was probably composed in the same area in the north of Kingdom of Aragon, Aragon. Its author is not named in the manuscript, but it may have been written by the same author as the work that precedes it, the ''Tractatus contra Iudaeos''. He introduces himself as a Converso, Jewish convert to Christianity who took the name Peter. The ''Vita Mahometi'' is an explicitly Christian work that seeks to expose Muḥammad as a false prophet motivated by sexual lust and a desire for political power. The author's stated purpose is to correct the misunderstanding that Muḥammad was a Christian, although he did receive help from Jews and Christians. The work may be classified as "anti-hagiography", although it is less polemical in tone than many other medieval anti-hagiographies of Muḥammad. The text t ...
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