The Prophet Muhammad in French and English Lit...
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- Author Ahmad Gunny
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Ahmad Gunny
This magisterial survey of the prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 250 years is both a cross-cultural history and a discussion over the intellectual changes in the representing of the Prophet’s life based on the close examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts. It is in the mid-seventeenth century that serious Western responses to Muhammad first emerge, but the now common acceptance of his status as Prophet has been relatively recent. While there have been many attempts to renew Islamic studies in the West, Gunny argues that it is not necessary to discard Islamic sources to achieve this aim.
Ahmad Gunny has been Fellow and Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic studies since 1999. His main published works include Voltaire and English Literature (1979), images of Islam in Eighteen-Century Writings (1996), Perceptions of Islam in European Writings (2004), and his critical editions of Voltaire's miscellaneous texts, including ‘De l’Alcoran et de Mahomet’ (2002) in the complete works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire foundation in Oxford. In 2009 he was awarded Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.
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This magisterial survey of the prophet Muhammad in French and English literature over 250 years is both a cross-cultural history and a discussion over the intellectual changes in the representing of the Prophet’s life based on the close examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts. It is in the mid-seventeenth century that serious Western responses to Muhammad first emerge, but the now common acceptance of his status as Prophet has been relatively recent. While there have been many attempts to renew Islamic studies in the West, Gunny argues that it is not necessary to discard Islamic sources to achieve this aim.
Ahmad Gunny has been Fellow and Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic studies since 1999. His main published works include Voltaire and English Literature (1979), images of Islam in Eighteen-Century Writings (1996), Perceptions of Islam in European Writings (2004), and his critical editions of Voltaire's miscellaneous texts, including ‘De l’Alcoran et de Mahomet’ (2002) in the complete works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire foundation in Oxford. In 2009 he was awarded Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.
(9780860374787/3324)
