The Image of the Prophet between Ideal and Ideology : a Scholarly Investigation.
By crossing disciplinary boundaries in the field of the humanities, this volume aims to elucidate Muhammad's visualization in the West vis-à-vis his image in Islam. It does so not by relegating materials to geographical and/or linguistic spheres or by separating texts from images. Rather, it se...
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Introduction: Images of the Prophet Muhammad in a Global Context; The Prophet Encountered; Counterhistory in the Earliest Latin Lives of Muhammad; The Prophet Muhammad in Pre-Modern Jewish Literatures; Collecting the Dead Body of the Prophet MuhammadHair, Nails, Sweat and Spit; The Prophet Depicted; Muhammad As Warrior ProphetImages from the World History of Rashid al-Din; Muhammad and an Adoration of the Magi in the Gulbenkian Anthology of 813/1411; Infused with Shi'ismRepresentations of the Prophet in Qajar Iran; Plates.
- The Prophet VisualizedMeanings of Muhammad in Later Medieval Art; Mahomet Pseudo-Prophéte et les Musulmans Idolatres dans la sculpture romane (IX-XIII siécle); Reading the Bible through Glass: The Image of Muhammad in the Sainte-Chapelle; A Sixteenth-Century European Author Portrait of Muhammad and Medieval Latin Traditions of Qur'an Reading; Muhammad, Mandeville, and MaximilianConstructing a Muslim Nemesis; The Prophet Reformed and Revised; Religious Polemics and Visual Realism in a late 16th-Century Biography of the Prophet Muhammad.
- Impostor or Lawgiver?Muhammad through European Eyes in the 17th and 18th CenturiesThe Prophet Appropriated and Applauded; The Dancing Muhammad of Le Grand bal de la Douairiére de BillebahautIncarnating Unity, Power, and Glory in the Court of Louis XIII; Muhammad Learning the Dao and Writing SutrasEarly Japanese Representations of Muhammad; Between Convivencia and ReconquistaThe Prophet Muhammad as Arabian Knight in a Spanish Qur'an Translation of 1872; Yankee Mahomet.
- Masonic Fraternalism and Muhammad Among the Lawgivers in Adolph A. Weinmann's Sculpture Frieze for the United States Supreme Court (1931-1935)Author'ss Biographies; Index.