Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- The Distorting Mirror: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in Medieval and Other Writings in the West
- From the Earliest to Medieval Period
- Chanson de Geste
- La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
- The Prophet as an Idol in Romances
- Middle English Mystery Plays
- The Prophet as God
- The Prophet as the Heresiarch
- Italian Literature
- Dante’s Divine Comedy
- Medieval Misconceptions about the Prophet
- Peter the Venerable
- Thomas Aquinas
- Raymon Llull
- Higden’s Polychronicon
- Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)
- John Mandeville’s Travels
- Some More Misperceptions about the Prophet
- Representation of the Prophet in the Reformation Period (Sixteenth Century)
- Alexander Ross
- Henry Stubbe
- Humphrey Prideaux (1697)
- Lady Montagu
- George Sale
- Edward Gibbon
- Voltaire
- Goethe
- The Crescent in the West: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in the Literary Works
- William Langland (ca. 1332–1400)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
- John Lydgate (ca. 1370–1449)
- William Dunbar (1456–1513)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- Elizabethan Turk Plays
- Robert Greene’s Alphonsus
- Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk
- Philip Massinger’s Renegado
- Fulke Greville’s Mustapha
- John Donne (1572–1631)
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
- Samuel Butler (1613–1680)
- Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
- John Dryden (1631–1700)
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- William Cowper (1731–1800)
- Robert Southey (1774–1843)
- Southey’s Sketch of the Poem, “Mohammed”
- Southey’s Notes on the Poem
- The Early Believers
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
- Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
- Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
- Lord Byron (1788–1824)
- P. B. Shelley (1792–1820)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
- Towards Fairness and Truth: Recent Trends in the Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)
- Works on the Prophet’s Illustrious Life and Career
- R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970)
- Michael Hart (1932–)
- Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003)
- Karen Armstrong (1944–)
- Fred M. Donner (1945–)
- John Adair (1934–)
- Historical and Cultural Studies
- Norman Daniel (1919–1992)
- James Kritzeck (1930–1986)
- Albert Hourani (1915–1993)
- William Montgomery Watt (1909–2006)
- John L. Esposito (1940–)
- Frederick Quinn (1935–)
- John Tolan (1959–)
- Matthew Dimmock (1975–)
- Islamic Studies in the British Universities
- Index
Abdur Raheem Kidwai
Images of
the Prophet Muhammad
in English Literature
PETER LANG
New York • Bern • Berlin
Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kidwai, Abdur Raheem, author.
Title: Images of the Prophet Mohammad in English literature / Abdur Raheem Kidwai.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044490 | ISBN 978-1-4331-4748-7 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4749-4 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4750-0 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-4751-7 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Muhammad, Prophet, –632—In literature.
English literature—History and criticism.
Islam in literature.
Classification: LCC PR428.M75 K53 | DDC 820.9/2829763—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044490
DOI 10.3726/b13294
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About the book
Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature seeks to promote a better understanding between the Muslim world and the West against the backdrop of the Danish cartoons and the deplorable tragedy of 9/11, which has evoked a general interest in things Islamic. This book recounts and analyzes the image of Prophet Muhammad, as reflected in English literary texts from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. It will be of much interest to students of English literary history, cultural studies, Islamic studies, and literary Orientalism.
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Contents
Chapter One: The Distorting Mirror: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in Medieval and Other Writings in the West
From the Earliest to Medieval Period
La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
The Prophet as an Idol in Romances
Medieval Misconceptions about the Prophet
Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)
John Mandeville’s Travels0←vii | viii→
Some More Misperceptions about the Prophet
Representation of the Prophet in the Reformation Period (Sixteenth Century)
Chapter Two: The Crescent in the West: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in the Literary Works
William Langland (ca. 1332–1400)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk
Southey’s Sketch of the Poem, “Mohammed”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)←viii | ix→
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
Chapter Three: Towards Fairness and Truth: Recent Trends in the Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 152
- Publication Year
- 2018
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433147494
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433147500
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433147517
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433147487
- DOI
- 10.3726/b13294
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2018 (March)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2018. XIV, 152 pp.
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