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Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature

by Abdur Raheem Kidwai (Author)
©2018 Monographs XIV, 152 Pages

Summary

Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature seeks to promote a better understanding between the Muslim world and the West against the backdrop of the Danish cartoons and the deplorable tragedy of 9/11, which has evoked a general interest in things Islamic. This book recounts and analyzes the image of Prophet Muhammad, as reflected in English literary texts from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. It will be of much interest to students of English literary history, cultural studies, Islamic studies, and literary Orientalism.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Distorting Mirror: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in Medieval and Other Writings in the West
  • From the Earliest to Medieval Period
  • Chanson de Geste
  • La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
  • The Prophet as an Idol in Romances
  • Middle English Mystery Plays
  • The Prophet as God
  • The Prophet as the Heresiarch
  • Italian Literature
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • Medieval Misconceptions about the Prophet
  • Peter the Venerable
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Raymon Llull
  • Higden’s Polychronicon
  • Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)
  • John Mandeville’s Travels
  • Some More Misperceptions about the Prophet
  • Representation of the Prophet in the Reformation Period (Sixteenth Century)
  • Alexander Ross
  • Henry Stubbe
  • Humphrey Prideaux (1697)
  • Lady Montagu
  • George Sale
  • Edward Gibbon
  • Voltaire
  • Goethe
  • The Crescent in the West: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in the Literary Works
  • William Langland (ca. 1332–1400)
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
  • John Lydgate (ca. 1370–1449)
  • William Dunbar (1456–1513)
  • Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)
  • Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
  • Elizabethan Turk Plays
  • Robert Greene’s Alphonsus
  • Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk
  • Philip Massinger’s Renegado
  • Fulke Greville’s Mustapha
  • John Donne (1572–1631)
  • Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
  • Samuel Butler (1613–1680)
  • Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
  • John Dryden (1631–1700)
  • Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
  • Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
  • Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
  • William Cowper (1731–1800)
  • Robert Southey (1774–1843)
  • Southey’s Sketch of the Poem, “Mohammed”
  • Southey’s Notes on the Poem
  • The Early Believers
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
  • Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
  • Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
  • Lord Byron (1788–1824)
  • P. B. Shelley (1792–1820)
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
  • Towards Fairness and Truth: Recent Trends in the Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)
  • Works on the Prophet’s Illustrious Life and Career
  • R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970)
  • Michael Hart (1932–)
  • Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003)
  • Karen Armstrong (1944–)
  • Fred M. Donner (1945–)
  • John Adair (1934–)
  • Historical and Cultural Studies
  • Norman Daniel (1919–1992)
  • James Kritzeck (1930–1986)
  • Albert Hourani (1915–1993)
  • William Montgomery Watt (1909–2006)
  • John L. Esposito (1940–)
  • Frederick Quinn (1935–)
  • John Tolan (1959–)
  • Matthew Dimmock (1975–)
  • Islamic Studies in the British Universities
  • Index

Abdur Raheem Kidwai

Images of
the Prophet Muhammad
in English Literature

About the author

Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Professor of English and Director of the UGC Human Resource Development Centre at Aligarh Muslim University, has a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University and a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has been the Honorary Visiting Professor/Fellow at the Department of English, University of Leicester, and has delivered lectures on literary Orientalism at the universities of Oxford, Mauritius, Sunderland, and Leicester. Some of his books include Orientalism in Lord Byron’s Turkish Tales, Stranger Than Fiction: Image of Islam/Muslims in English Fiction, and Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslims.

About the book

Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature seeks to promote a better understanding between the Muslim world and the West against the backdrop of the Danish cartoons and the deplorable tragedy of 9/11, which has evoked a general interest in things Islamic. This book recounts and analyzes the image of Prophet Muhammad, as reflected in English literary texts from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. It will be of much interest to students of English literary history, cultural studies, Islamic studies, and literary Orientalism.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter One: The Distorting Mirror: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in Medieval and Other Writings in the West

From the Earliest to Medieval Period

Chanson de Geste

La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)

The Prophet as an Idol in Romances

Middle English Mystery Plays

The Prophet as God

The Prophet as the Heresiarch

Italian Literature

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Medieval Misconceptions about the Prophet

Peter the Venerable

Thomas Aquinas

Raymon Llull

Higden’s Polychronicon

Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend)

John Mandeville’s Travels0←vii | viii→

Some More Misperceptions about the Prophet

Representation of the Prophet in the Reformation Period (Sixteenth Century)

Alexander Ross

Henry Stubbe

Humphrey Prideaux (1697)

Lady Montagu

George Sale

Edward Gibbon

Voltaire

Goethe

Chapter Two: The Crescent in the West: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in the Literary Works

William Langland (ca. 1332–1400)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)

John Lydgate (ca. 1370–1449)

William Dunbar (1456–1513)

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Elizabethan Turk Plays

Robert Greene’s Alphonsus

Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk

Philip Massinger’s Renegado

Fulke Greville’s Mustapha

John Donne (1572–1631)

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

Samuel Butler (1613–1680)

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

John Dryden (1631–1700)

Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

William Cowper (1731–1800)

Robert Southey (1774–1843)

Southey’s Sketch of the Poem, “Mohammed”

Southey’s Notes on the Poem

The Early Believers

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)←viii | ix→

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

Lord Byron (1788–1824)

P. B. Shelley (1792–1820)

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

Chapter Three: Towards Fairness and Truth: Recent Trends in the Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)

Details

Pages
XIV, 152
Year
2018
ISBN (PDF)
9781433147494
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433147500
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433147517
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433147487
DOI
10.3726/b13294
Language
English
Publication date
2018 (March)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2018. XIV, 152 pp.

Biographical notes

Abdur Raheem Kidwai (Author)

Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Professor of English and Director of the UGC Human Resource Development Centre at Aligarh Muslim University, has a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University and a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has been the Honorary Visiting Professor/Fellow at the Department of English, University of Leicester, and has delivered lectures on literary Orientalism at the universities of Oxford, Mauritius, Sunderland, and Leicester. Some of his books include Orientalism in Lord Byron’s Turkish Tales, Stranger Than Fiction: Image of Islam/Muslims in English Fiction, and Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslims.

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