Faces of Muhammad
Faces of Muhammad Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. The contradictory Western visions of…
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Faces of Muhammad
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol.
In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. 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
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