Research Catalog

Title

The image of the Prophet between ideal and ideology : a scholarly investigation / edited by Christiane J. Gruber and Avinoam Shalem.

Publication

Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, Inc., [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-
• Shalem, Avinoam.

Description

vii,392 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Literature
• Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 > In literature
• Art
• Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 > Art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Counterhistory in the earliest Latin lives of Muhammad / Kenneth Baxter Wolf -- The Prophet Muhammad in Pre-Modern Jewish Literatures / Reuven Firestone -- Collecting the Dead Body of the Prophet Muhammad : Hair, Nails, Sweat and Spit / Brannon Wheeler -- Muhammad As Warrior Prophet : Images from the World History of Rashid al-Din / Robert Hillenbrand -- Muhammad and an Adoration of the Magi in the Gulbenkian Anthology of 813/1411 / Maria Vittoria Fontana -- Infused with Shi'ism : Representations of the Prophet in Qajar Iran / Maryam Ekhtiar -- Meanings of Muhammad in Later Medieval Art / Debra Higgs Strickland -- "Retour aux Beatus: Mahomet Pseudo-Prophète et les Musulmans Idolâtres dans la sculture romane (IX-XIIIe siècle)" / Inés Monteira Arias -- Reading the Bible through Glass: The Image of Muhammad in the Sainte-Chapelle / Michelina Di Cesare -- A Sixteenth-Century European Author Portrait of Muhammad and Medieval Latin Traditions of Qur'an Reading / Thomas E. Burman and Leah Giamalva -- Muhammad, Mandeville, and Maximilian : Constructing a Muslim Nemesis / Larry Silver -- Religious Polemics and Visual Realism in a late 16th-Century Biography of the Prophet Muhammad / Ulrike Ilg -- Impostor or Lawgiver? : Muhammad through European Eyes in the 17th and 18th Centuries / John Tolan -- The Dancing Muhammad of Le Grand bal de la Douairière de Billebahaut : Incarnating Unity, Power, and Glory in the Court of Louis XIII / Katie Larson -- Muhammad Learning the Dao and Writing Sutras : Early Japanese Representations of Muhammad / Fabio Rambelli -- Between Convivencia and Reconquista : The Prophet Muhammad as Arabian knight in a Spanish Qur'an translation of 1872 / Alberto Saviello -- 'Yankee Mahomet' / Holly Edwards -- Masonic Fraternalism and Muhammad Among the Lawgivers in Adolph A. Weinman's Sculpture Frieze for the United States Supreme Court (1931-1935) / David Bjelajac -- Bibliography -- Information on the authors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9783110312386 (alk. paper)
• 3110312387 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2014020974

OCLC

• ocn881146233
• 881146233
• SCSB-9620928

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries