El op. 38 Cent Noms de Déu de Ramon Llull como poesía anticoránica

In his Cent noms de Déu (Hundred Names of God), Raymond Llull presents a hundred poems of praise founded on the hundred attributes or virtues of God. It is in itself a work of piety, adapted in its psalmody to the liturgical hours. But at the same time, Llull deals with the Islamic issue of the hundred Names of God (al-asmā'al-ḥusnā), as he declares in the Prologue. His objective is to demonstrate the falsity of the Islamic belief in the unique and inimitable revelation of the Koran. By imitating and, as he sees it, exceeding the poetic quality of the Koran itself (sic), Llull attempts to demonstrate that the Koran is not a revealed text - and therefore not sacred. He thus argues against one of the main foundations of Islam, that is, the nature of the Koranic text. But far from restraining himself to a refutation, he intends to rival Islam by appropriating its forms, such that he can offer a kind of refu- tation ad intra which is hardly found in other contemporary or later authors