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Faces of Muhammad :

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0691186111

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9780691186115

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0691167060

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9780691167060

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bc472

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Faces of Muhammad :

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[Book]

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Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today /

First Statement of Responsibility

John V. Tolan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Princeton, New Jersey :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

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1 online resource (xii, 309 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; CONCLUSION; Notes; Index

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Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad0In 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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22573/ctvc5qc6f

Title

FACES OF MUHAMMAD.

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0691167060

Muḥammad,-632.

Muḥammad,-632.

Christianity and other religions-- Islam.

Islam-- Relations-- Christianity.

Christianity.

Interfaith relations.

Islam.

RELIGION-- Islam-- General.

RELIGION-- Islam-- History.

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REL-- 037010

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REL-- 102000

REL-- 116000

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Tolan, John Victor,1959-

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20210429081741.0

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270410

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