Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today John Tolan 0691186111 9780691186115

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• ISBN 10: 0691186111
• ISBN 13: 9780691186115
• Author: John Tolan

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.

Table of contents:

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

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