Authors: Minou Reeves
ISBN-13: 9780814775646, ISBN-10: 0814775640
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: New Edition
Born in Tehran, Minou Reeves was, until 1979 a career diplomat. At the time of the Iranian Revolution, she was Queen Farah's international secretary. She is the author of Female Warriors of Allah, and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Linguists at London. She currently lives in Worcestershire, working as a freelance writer, translator and language consultant.
Generations of Western writers Drawing on works dating from the Middle Ages to the last decade of the twentieth century and spanning Latin, Italian, French, German, and English language sources, the book culminates with a critical analysis of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor have plumbed historical documents to produce a study that has both truth and urgency.....You could not do better than this book.Jewish Currents
Acknowledgements | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Muhammad the Prophet of Mecca | 9 |
2 | Muhammad's Rule in Medina: The Making of Islam | 31 |
3 | Muhammad's Quest for Spirituality | 57 |
4 | Muhammad as Mahound: Medieval Europe and the fear of Islam | 73 |
5 | The Turkish Threat: Muhammad in the Europe of the Renaissance | 99 |
6 | Muhammad as an Anti-Christ: The fate of Muhammad and Islam in the Reformation | 119 |
7 | Humanist or Fanatic? The Enlightenment divided | 139 |
8 | Hero or Impostor? Muhammad in the age of hero worship | 175 |
9 | Fantasies of Sensuality and Cruelty: Muhammad and Islam in nineteenth-century European imagination | 203 |
10 | The Return of the Crusades and Jihads: Islam at the end of the Ottoman Empire | 241 |
11 | From Reverence to Travesty: Muhammad in the twentieth century | 271 |
Bibliography | 301 |