Faces of Muhammad – Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today

Name: Faces of Muhammad – Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
Author: John Tolan

Auteur: John Tolan

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: John Tolan

Engels
Hardcover
9780691167060
11 juni 2019
328 pagina's

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Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad In 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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 juni 2019
Aantal pagina's: 328
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Hoofdauteur: John Tolan
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 243 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 983 g

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Categorieën: Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

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Religie

Europa

Geschiedenis van religie

Islam

Theologie & Religieuze kwesties

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Taal: Engels
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Onderwerp: Islam
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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