The Image of the Prophet between Ideal and Ideology : a Scholarly Investigation

A significant contribution to the history of interactive relationships between the Islamic world, Europe, and America 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 from the medieval era until the modern period. * The first volume to discuss Euro-American literary and artistic traditions in conjunction with and as related to the history of representations of Muhammad in the Islamic world. * It affords a more nuanced understanding of Euro-American relationships with Islamic lands from the earliest period until today. 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 Muhammad Hair, Nails, Sweat and Spit The Prophet Depicted Muhammad As Warrior Prophet Images 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'ism Representations of the Prophet in Qajar Iran Plates The Prophet Visualized Meanings 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 Maximilian Constructing 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 Centuries The Prophet Appropriated and Applauded The Dancing Muhammad of Le Grand bal de la Douairiére de Billebahaut Incarnating Unity, Power, and Glory in the Court of Louis XIII Muhammad Learning the Dao and Writing Sutras Early Japanese Representations of Muhammad Between Convivencia and Reconquista The 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's s Biographies Index

Disziplinäre Grenzen überschreitend zielt der Band darauf ab, die Visualisierung Mohammeds in der westlichen Welt vis-à-vis mit dessen Darstellung im Islam zu untersuchen. Dabei wird das Material weder geographischen oder sprachlichen Sphären zugeordnet noch werden Textquellen isoliert von bildlichen Darstellungen betrachtet. Die Beiträge eröffnen vielmehr einen thematischen und theoretischen Dialog über die Frage, wie der Prophet in verschiedenen kulturellen Traditionen, in Europa und Amerika und in der Welt des Islam, vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart, vergegenwärtigt wurde.

Seeks to place various articles in thematic and theoretical conversation so as to explore how the Prophet Muhammad 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 from the medieval era until the modern period. Aims to elucidate Muhammad's visualization in the West vis-a-vis his image in Islam. This book 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. By crossing disciplinary boundaries in the field of the humanities, this volume aims to elucidate Muhammad's visualization in the West vis-a-vis his image in Islam. It does so not by relegating materials to geographical and/or linguistic spheres or by separating texts from images.