Beschreibung:
"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the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts."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
Transliteration Table / iv Preface / v Introduction / 1Chapter 1 Muhammad in Christian Thought, 1650-1750 / 21Chapter 2 The imagined Muhammad from Marana to Voltaire / 71Chapter 3 Muhammad in French Enlightenment / 113Chapter 4 Muhammad in the Age of Empire to 1900 / 159Chapter 5 Sympathy and Scepticism, 1900 to the present / 207Conclusion / 251 Bibliography / 257 Index / 265