After the Prophet's death: Christian-Muslim polemic and the literary images of Muhammad
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Krisztina Szilagyi
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Cook, Michael A.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Princeton University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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290
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Haykel, Bernard; Papoutsakis, Emmanuel; Tolan, John V.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-02339-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Near Eastern Studies
Body granting the degree
Princeton University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The central thesis of this dissertation is that the anti-Islamic literature of Christians living under Muslim rule generally drew on the contemporaneous Muslim Tradition and seldom stemmed, contrary to what has often been claimed, from their ignorance or misunderstanding of Islam. The first chapter demonstrates the validity of this thesis when applied to Christian narratives of Muhammad's death recorded in the ninth century-narratives that scholars have for centuries regarded as examples of the malicious inventiveness of Christian polemicists.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religious history; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Near Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Christian;Literary images;Muhammad;Polemic;Prophet