Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Dimmock is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. Klappentext This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: fabricating Mahomet; Part I. 'Well Rehearsed' in 'Books Old': Early Print and the Life of Mahomet: 1. From Polychronicon to The Golden Legend (and back); 2. The Fall of Princes; 3. Sir John Mandeville and the Travels; 4. Mahomet and the exclusive polemic; Part II. Most Like to Mahomet: Religious History and Reformation Mutability: 5. Preaching equivalence; 6. Painted words: Mahomet in the late sixteenth-century histories; Part III. Old Mahomet's Head: Idols, Papists and Mortus Ali on the English Stage: 7. Romance and idolatry; 8. Islamic idols and stage Mahomets; 9. Mahomet, Mortus Ally and the Pope; Part IV. Bunyan's Dilemma: Seventeenth-Century Imposture, Liberty and True Mahomets: 10. The fables and the fabler; 11. Imposturae; 12. A stupendous revolution; Conclusion: Mahomet discovered; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Matthew Dimmock, Matthew Dimmock
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107032910
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03291-0
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities