Tolan John Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today 9780691167060

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Автор: Tolan John
Название: Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
ISBN: 9780691167060
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

История Европы

Религии и верования

Религия и политика

Религиозная нетерпимость, преследования и конфликты

История религии

Ислам

Исламска теология

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 0691167060
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 328
Вес: 0.70 кг.
Дата издания: 11.06.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 17 b/w illus.
Размер: 238 x 176 x 27
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: Western perceptions of the prophet of islam from the middle ages to today
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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 arent 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.

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