Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The play is a study of religious fanaticism and self-serving manipulation based on an episode in the traditional biography of Muhammad in which he orders the murder of his critics. Voltaire described the play as "written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect".
Mahomet the Prophet
Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The play is a study of religious fanaticism and self-serving manipulation based on an episode in the traditional biography of Muhammad in which he orders the murder of his critics. Voltaire described the play as "written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The play is a study of religious fanaticism and self-serving manipulation based on an episode in the traditional biography of Muhammad in which he orders the murder of his critics. Voltaire described the play as "written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect".
Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture
Author: Matthew Dimmock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.
Mahomet: Founder of Islam
Author: Gladys M. Draycott
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613102062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Life of Mahomet
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Life of Mahomet
Author: Sir William Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The life of Mahomet
Author: William Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Faces of Muhammad
Author: John Tolan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
Mahomet and His Successors
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Mahomet and Islam
Author: William Muir
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497819917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497819917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
Muhammad
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788187570189
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788187570189
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description