Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-MakingGenerations of Western writers—from the Crusades to the present day—have written portraits claiming to depict the life and personality of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Over the course of thirteen centuries, stubbornly biased and consistently negative representations have persisted, presenting images which bear no resemblance to the noble man familiar to Muslims. Muhammad in Europe traces this consistent tradition of distortion and provides an account of the reasons behind it. |
Contents
Muhammad the Prophet of Mecca | 9 |
The Making of Islam | 31 |
Muhammads Quest for Spirituality | 57 |
Medieval Europe | 73 |
Muhammad in the Europe | 99 |
The fate of Muhammad | 119 |
Humanist or Fanatic? The Enlightenment divided | 139 |
Hero or Impostor? Muhammad in the age | 175 |
Muhammad and Islam | 203 |
Islam at the | 241 |
Muhammad in | 271 |
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Schimmel Annemarie Mystische Dimensionen des Islam 3rd edn Munich | 305 |