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Informationen zum Autor Ahmad Gunny: Ahmad Gunny is Fellow and Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. His works include Voltaire and English literature (1979), Images of Islam in Eighteenth-Century Writings (1996), Perceptions of Islam in European Writings (2004), and critical editions of Voltaire’s miscellaneous texts, including ?De l’Alcoran et de Mahomet’ in the Complete Works of Voltaire. In 2009 he received the award of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French Government. Klappentext A well researched and thorough study of 350 years of writings in French and English Literature about the Prophet Muhammad. Vorwort Kube Publishing Ltd. Zusammenfassung "Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts." - Islamic Horizons "Ahmad Gunny has been a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period. Thanks to his acclaimed critical studies, students and scholars alike have found in his work new and important directions for research." —Nabil Matar, professor, University of Minnesota This magisterial survey of the Prophet Muhammad over three hundred and fifty years is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the close examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts. Ahmad Gunny is fellow and senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Transliteration Table / iv Preface / v Introduction / 1 Chapter 1 Muhammad in Christian Thought, 1650-1750 / 21 Chapter 2 The imagined Muhammad from Marana to Voltaire / 71 Chapter 3 Muhammad in French Enlightenment / 113 Chapter 4 Muhammad in the Age of Empire to 1900 / 159 Chapter 5 Sympathy and Scepticism, 1900 to the present / 207 Conclusion / 251 Bibliography / 257 Index / 265 ...
