Medieval Latin translators rendered Qur’anic sūras as praecepta (divine commandments)

Evidence

Archbishop Roderick described a stirah as made up of praecepta; in the Spanish version of the same text this appeared as /eys. In another place zohara ( = (lat. ) azoara =stirah) was explained as meaning mandamiento; and in another, as meaning /aws of God. (Hist. Arab. v1; Cron. de Esp. cxx1/493, cf. cv1/478.) Fitzralph naturally followed Ketton on his use of words of Arabic origin. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1907

Categorization

• DEFINE: Traces how the Arabic sūra was Latinized as praecepta, azoara, /eys, mandamiento across Iberian and Latin versions.
• XREF: Connects to vault claims about how Qur’anic authority was framed by Christian translators; echoes Aziz/Razack themes of Islam being categorized as a rival legal-moral system.