| Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 seeks to place various articles in thematic and theoretical conversation so as to explore more broadly how the Prophet has been constructed, visualized, narrated, encountered, revised, adapted, and adopted in multiple cultural traditions, in European and American traditions and in the world of Islam f |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Art
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- In literature
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632. fast (OCoLC)fst01836298 |
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Literature.
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Kunst
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Islam.
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| Genre/Form |
Art.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shalem, Avinoam
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| LC no. |
2014020974 |
| ISBN |
9783110312546 |
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3110312549 |
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9783110383157 |
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3110383152 |
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9783110312553 |
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3110312557 |
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3110312387 |
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9783110312386 |
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