John Tolan u.a.: Christliche und westliche Wahrnehmungen des Propheten Mohammed ————- von der Antike bis heute (IRB-Blog-Archiv)

John Tolan:
Faces of Muhammad

Gesichter Mohammeds

Western Perceptions
of the Prophet of Islam
from the Middle Ages to Today

Westliche Wahrnehmungen des Propheten
des Islam vom Mittelalter bis heute



Princeton, NJ (USA):
Princeton University Press,
2019, 328 pp., index, illustr. 

ISBN 978-0691186115 —

Verlagsinformation >>> — Leseprobe >>>

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JOHN TOLAN(Author), AMIR MOEZZI MOHAMMED ALI (Editor): Le Mahomet des historiens
[Der Mohammed der Historiker]
Paris: Cerf 2025, ‎ 2208 pp.
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 220415007X — ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 
978-2204150071
Verlagsinformation (Amazon) >>>
Obwohl die Historizität des Prophten Mohammed weitgehend anerkannt ist, hat es doch seit dem 19. Jh. immer wieder in den religiösen Traditionen intensive Debatten um die Überlieferungstränge seins Lebens gegeben.


Le Mahomet des historiens

 
information  zu „Faces  of Muhammad“ + Contents/INHALT
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?  
The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad
Ketzer und Betrüger oder Reformer und Staatsmann? Die widersprüchlichen westlichen Sichtweisen auf Mohammed

In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the “Saracens,” he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day.
Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. To Reformation polemicists, the spread of Islam attested to the corruption of the established Church, and prompted them to depict Muhammad as a champion of reform. In revolutionary England, writers on both sides of the conflict drew parallels between Muhammad and Oliver Cromwell, asking whether the prophet was a rebel against legitimate authority or the bringer of a new and just order. Voltaire first saw Muhammad as an archetypal religious fanatic but later claimed him as an enemy of superstition. To Napoleon, he was simply a role model: a brilliant general, orator, and leader.
The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam.
Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis
 
Wie Europa den Propheten Mohammed sieht: 
Tolan stellt die verschiedenen Mohammed-Bilder dar:

1.  Mohammed als Idol

2.  Betrüger und Erzketzer
3.  Pseudeprophet der Mauren
4.  Prophet der Türken
5.  Republikanischer Revolutionär für das England der Renaissance
6.  Prophet der Aufklärung: Reformer und Gesetzgeber
7.  Gesetzgeber- Staatsmann – Held: Der Prophet der Romantiker
8.  Ein jüdisher Mohammed? Die Sicht jüdischer Gemeinscnaften
des 19. Jahrhunderts in Mitteleuropa
9.  Prophet des abrahamischen Glaubens
10. Schlussfolgerung
 
John Tolan, Université de Nantes
The Author:
John Tolan is professor of history at the University of Nantes and a member of the Academia Europaea. His previous books include Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination and Saint Francis and the Sultan. Twitter @JohnVTolan
https://www.univ-nantes.fr/john-tolan
 

 

Ergänzend / Additional Literature
John Tolan u.a.
 
 >>> Charles Tieszen: The Christian Encounter with Muhammad
How Theologians have Interpreted the Prophet.
London u.a.: Bloomsbury 2022
Verlagsinformation & Inhaltsverzeichnis >>>
>>> Kenneth Baxter Wolf: Muhammad als Antichrist im Córdoba des 9. Jh.s

Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interaction
and Cultural Change, in: 
MARK D. MEYERSON / EDWARD D. ENGLISH
Series: Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies
—  University of Notre Dame Press 2000, 368 pp. — https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpj7bxm
(20 Seiten über academia.edu >>>)

Muhammad Reconsidered
Paris: Tallandier 2022, 352 pp.
ISBN/EAN: 
979-1021049772
ISBN/EAN numérique : 979-1021049796
Leseprobe / Extrait >>>

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