Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam - The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

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.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The "Copernican Revolution" of Henry StubbeThe Printed and Manuscript Sources: Editorial PolicyThe Originall & Progress of MahometanismNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Nabil Matar is Presidential Professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578--1727.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Matar, Nabil Matar, Nabil (Professor Matar, Henry Stubbe
• Assisted by: Nabil Matar (Editor), Nabil (Professor Matar (Editor), Matar Nabil (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2013
• EAN: 9780231156646
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15664-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Islam / History, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval