Henry Stubbe & The Prophet Muhammad: Challenging Misrepresentation
Title | Henry Stubbe & The Prophet Muhammad: Challenging Misrepresentation PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Nabil Matar |
Publisher | AMSS UK |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1945886080 |
The history of medieval and early modern European writings about the Prophet Muhammad oe shows a consistent pattern of misunderstanding. Until the nineteenth century, only one writer challenged that history: the English physician Henry Stubbe (1632–1676), author of “Originall & Progress of Mahometanism.” Neither an Orientalist nor a theologian, Henry Stubbe approached Islam as a historian of religion, perhaps the first in early modern Europe, arguing that the study of another religion should rely on historical evidence derived from indigenous documents, and not on foreign accounts. The result of his new historiographical approach was a “Copernican revolution” in the study of the figure of Muhammad, the Qur’an, and Islam. It shifted the focus from faith to scholarship. Had his treatise been published, the course of Western understanding of Islam might have been different.
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
Title | Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil Matar |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-12-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231527365 |
Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to document the Prophet Muhammad's life positively, celebrate the Qur'an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility. Nabil Matar, a leading scholar of Islamic-British relations, standardizes Stubbe's text and situates it within England's theological and intellectual climate in the seventeenth century. He shows how, to draw a historical portrait of Muhammad, Stubbe embraced travelogues, Latin commentaries, studies on Jewish customs and Scripture, and, most important, Arabic chronicles, many written by medieval Christian Arabs who had lived in the midst of the Islamic polity. No European writer before or for a long time after Stubbe produced anything similar to what he wrote about Muhammad the "great Prophet," Ali the "gallant" advocate, and the "standing miracle" of the Qur'an. Stubbe's book therefore makes a unique contribution to the study of the representation of Islam in Western thought.
Henry Stubbe & the Prophet Muhammad
Title | Henry Stubbe & the Prophet Muhammad PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil I. Matar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Islam |
ISBN | 9781565645868 |
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
Title | Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil Matar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780231156653 |
A Seventeenth-century Defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632-76) and His Book
Title | A Seventeenth-century Defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632-76) and His Book PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Malcolm Holt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
Title | Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Nabil Matar |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013-12-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231156642 |
Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was a revolutionary English scholar who understood Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to positively document the Prophet Muhammad’s life, celebrate the Qur’an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility. Nabil Matar, a leading scholar of Islamic-Western relations, standardizes Stubbe’s text and situates it within England’s theological climate. He shows how, to draw a positive portrait of Muhammad, Stubbe embraced travelogues, early church histories, Arabic chronicles, Latin commentaries, and studies on Jewish customs and scriptures, produced in the language of Islam and in the midst of the Islamic polity.
An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism
Title | An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Stubbe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Islam |
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