Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam : The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism / Nabil Matar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.

Contributor:

Matar, Nabil, editor.

Standardized Title:

Account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.

Stubbe, Henry.

Islam--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The "Copernican Revolution" of Henry Stubbe

The Printed and Manuscript Sources. Editorial Policy

The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231527361

0231527365

OCLC:

979969501