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Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe / ed. by Avinoam Shalem.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110300826
  • 9783110300864
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6260 .D47 2013
  • N6260 .D53 2013eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Prophet in the Book -- Encountering the Body of Muhammad -- Muhammad’s Multiple Faces -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index of Proper Names, Terms, and Places
Summary: the volume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout the text and an extensive bibliography.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110300864

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Prophet in the Book -- Encountering the Body of Muhammad -- Muhammad’s Multiple Faces -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index of Proper Names, Terms, and Places

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the volume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout the text and an extensive bibliography.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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