Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men
The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men (Arabic: كتاب الكافر والحكماء الثلاثة,[1] Catalan: Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis) is an apologetic by Ramon Llull.[2] It was first written in Arabic, then in Catalan and Latin.[2][3] ContentThe book tells of a "Gentile" (in this case a Pagan) who speaks with "three wise men," each representing one of the three main Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[2] Each of these three men presents his religion, and the Gentile makes his choice. When it might be expected of a Christian polemicist such as Llull to establish the superiority of Christianity, he does not disclose the gentile's choice and leaves it as an open-ended question:
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