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Faces of Muhammad [electronic resource] Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today
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| 서명/저자사항 | Faces of Muhammad : Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today/ John V. Tolan. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Tolan, John Victor,1959- author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2019]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: TOLAN, JOHN. FACES OF MUHAMMAD. [Place of publication not identified], PRINCETON University PRES, 2019 0691167060 |
| ISBN | 9780691186115 0691186111 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Mahomet the Idol; CHAPTER 2. Trickster and Heresiarch; CHAPTER 3. Pseudoprophet of the Moors; CHAPTER 4. Prophet of the Turks; CHAPTER 5. Republican Revolutionary in Renaissance England; CHAPTER 6. The Enlightenment Prophet: Reformer and Legislator; CHAPTER 7. Lawgiver, Statesman, Hero: The Romantics' Prophet; CHAPTER 8. A Jewish Muhammad? The View from Jewish Communities of Nineteenth-Century Central Europe; CHAPTER 9. Prophet of an Abrahamic Faith; CONCLUSION; Notes; Index |
| 요약 | Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad0In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the "Saracens," he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day. Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. To Reformation polemicists, the spread of Islam attested to the corruption of the established Church, and prompted them to depict Muhammad as a champion of reform. In revolutionary England, writers on both sides of the conflict drew parallels between Muhammad and Oliver Cromwell, asking whether the prophet was a rebel against legitimate authority or the bringer of a new and just order. Voltaire first saw Muhammad as an archetypal religious fanatic but later claimed him as an enemy of superstition. To Napoleon, he was simply a role model: a brilliant general, orator, and leader. The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Muḥammad, -- Prophet,-632. |
| 일반주제명 | Islam --Relations --Christianity. Christianity and other religions --Islam. RELIGION / Islam / General RELIGION / Islam / History |
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