Henry Stubbe The Prophet Muhammad Challenging Misrepresentation

Author : Professor Nabil Matar
Publisher : AMSS UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781945886089

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Henry Stubbe & The Prophet Muhammad: Challenging Misrepresentation by Professor Nabil Matar Pdf

The history of medieval and early modern European writings about the Prophet Muhammad oe shows a consistent pattern of misunderstanding. Until the nineteenth century, only one writer challenged that history: the English physician Henry Stubbe (1632–1676), author of “Originall & Progress of Mahometanism.” Neither an Orientalist nor a theologian, Henry Stubbe approached Islam as a historian of religion, perhaps the first in early modern Europe, arguing that the study of another religion should rely on historical evidence derived from indigenous documents, and not on foreign accounts. The result of his new historiographical approach was a “Copernican revolution” in the study of the figure of Muhammad, the Qur’an, and Islam. It shifted the focus from faith to scholarship. Had his treatise been published, the course of Western understanding of Islam might have been different.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004326637

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600-1700) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, volume 8 (CMR 8) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Northern and Eastern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : Always Rafudeen,Luqman Zakariyah ,Ahmad Eldridge Cleaver,Rafiqul Islam Molla and Md. Mahmudul Allam,Amr Sabet,Yushau Sodiq,David H. Warren,Fatima Seedat,Martin Nguyen,Devin DeWeese,Christina Sunardi,David Johnston,Rachel Woodlock,Elliot Bazzano,Carolyn Baugh,Tauseef Ahmad Parray,Mohammad Saani Ibrahim ,Celine Ayat Lizzio,Jay Willoughby ,Muhammed Haron
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30:1 by Always Rafudeen,Luqman Zakariyah ,Ahmad Eldridge Cleaver,Rafiqul Islam Molla and Md. Mahmudul Allam,Amr Sabet,Yushau Sodiq,David H. Warren,Fatima Seedat,Martin Nguyen,Devin DeWeese,Christina Sunardi,David Johnston,Rachel Woodlock,Elliot Bazzano,Carolyn Baugh,Tauseef Ahmad Parray,Mohammad Saani Ibrahim ,Celine Ayat Lizzio,Jay Willoughby ,Muhammed Haron Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Author : Yusef Waghid and Nuraan Davids,Md. Mahmudul Hasan,Zahra Seif-Amirhosseini,Mahmoud Dhaouadi,Celene Ayat Lizzio,Sophia Rose Shafi ,Turan Kayaoglu ,Emrah Sahin,Brett Wilson,M. Reza Pirbhai,Yushau Sodiq,Farina Marie ,Todd Lawson,F.B. Sekaleshfar,Sulaiman Kamal-deen Olawale,Jay Willoughby ,Saim Kayadibi
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30:2 by Yusef Waghid and Nuraan Davids,Md. Mahmudul Hasan,Zahra Seif-Amirhosseini,Mahmoud Dhaouadi,Celene Ayat Lizzio,Sophia Rose Shafi ,Turan Kayaoglu ,Emrah Sahin,Brett Wilson,M. Reza Pirbhai,Yushau Sodiq,Farina Marie ,Todd Lawson,F.B. Sekaleshfar,Sulaiman Kamal-deen Olawale,Jay Willoughby ,Saim Kayadibi Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231156646

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Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam by Nabil Matar Pdf

Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was a revolutionary English scholar who understood Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to positively document the Prophet Muhammad’s life, celebrate the Qur’an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility. Nabil Matar, a leading scholar of Islamic-Western relations, standardizes Stubbe’s text and situates it within England’s theological climate. He shows how, to draw a positive portrait of Muhammad, Stubbe embraced travelogues, early church histories, Arabic chronicles, Latin commentaries, and studies on Jewish customs and scriptures, produced in the language of Islam and in the midst of the Islamic polity.

Author : Clinton Bennett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532646553

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In Search of Understanding by Clinton Bennett Pdf

Clinton Bennett reflects on four decades of engagement with Muslims and Christian-Muslim relations as a missionary, scholar, and interfaith activist. Set in the context of his personal story, chapters discuss a series of critical questions to the Christian-Muslim relationship reprising earlier writing. Bennett asks: can Christians appreciate the prophet Muhammad as a genuine messenger from God or is this theological treason? How might Christians respond to the Muslim claim that Jesus was a prophet and is not God incarnate? Can Christians with integrity regard the Qur’ān as a word from God, and is there any possibility of rapprochement on the issue of whether Jesus died on the cross? Focusing on the United States, Bennett also describes church-sponsored Christian-Muslim initiatives and offers suggestions on how Christians can rethink their ideas about Muslims and cooperate with them in peace and justice advocacy, and social and community development. Exploring some of the causes of Islamophobia, Bennett set out to challenge Christians to keep the commandment not to bear false witness against their Muslim neighbors.

Author : Samara Anne Cahill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480999

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Intelligent Souls? by Samara Anne Cahill Pdf

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Matthew Dimmock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107032910

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Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture by Matthew Dimmock Pdf

This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.

Author : John Tolan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691167060

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Faces of Muhammad by John Tolan Pdf

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad 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.

Author : Henry Stubbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Islam
ISBN : YALE:39002006123955

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An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism by Henry Stubbe Pdf

Author : S. Hutton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400922679

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Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies by S. Hutton Pdf

Of all the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More has attracted the most scholar ly interest in recent years, as the nature and significance of his contribution to the history of thought has come to be better understood. This revival of interest is in marked contrast to the neglect of More's writings lamented even by his first biographer, Richard Ward, a regret echoed two centuries after his 1 death. Since then such attention as there has been to More has not always served him well. He has been dismissed as credulous on account of his belief in witchcraft while his reputation as the most mystical of the Cambridge 2 school has undermined his reputation as a philosopher. Much of the interest in More in the present century has tended to focus on one particular aspect of his writing. There has been considerable interest in his poems. And he has come to the attention of philosophers thanks to his having corresponded with Descartes. Latterly, however, interest in More has been rekindled by renewed interest in the intellectual history of the seventeenth century and Renaissance. And More has been studied in the context of seventeenth-cen tury science and the wider context of seventeenth-century philosophy. Since More is a figure who belongs to the Renaissance tradition of unified sapientia he is not easily compartmentalised in the categories of modern disciplines. Inevitably discussion of anyone aspect of his thought involves other aspects.

Author : Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781933316666

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Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition by Joseph E. B. Lumbard Pdf

How has fundamentalism betrayed the true spirit of Islam? This fully revised and expanded edition of the critically acclaimed book provides answers to this question and contains: a new essay on the role of women in Islam; an updated chapter containing insights into the true nature of the jih three fully revised chapters that bring the discussion up-to-date with the current global situation; a revised introduction. Book jacket.

Author : Harold M. Weber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813184883

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Paper Bullets by Harold M. Weber Pdf

The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.

Author : Dr. Jack Shulimson,Maj. Charles M. Johnson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200838

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 by Dr. Jack Shulimson,Maj. Charles M. Johnson Pdf

This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0803253680

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The Virtuoso by Thomas Shadwell Pdf

First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he became Poet Laureate of England, a position he held until his death in 1692. The virtuoso of the title is Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, who like many after him confuses the extent of a collection with the depth of a science. Sir Gimcrack is fascinated by the geography of the moon, the worlds in his microscope, and the possibilities of human flight. More seriously and?for Shadwell's audience?more comically, his obsession with his arrays of worms and spiders proceeds at the expense of his wife and two beautiful nieces. The play also introduces Sir Formal Trifle, a pedantic ciceronian orator and coxcomb. His character established thereafter the theatrical type of the know-it-all blowhard. Famous for its wit and high-speed changes, The Virtuoso is also a display of the prestige of modern science and the pomposity of its ameteurs.