Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English by Matthew Dimmock

By Matthew Dimmock

The determine of 'Mahomet' was once well known in early smooth England. A gruesome model of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahomet used to be a fabricated from vilification, sketch and incorrect information positioned on the centre of Christian conceptions of Islam. In Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early smooth English tradition Matthew Dimmock attracts on an eclectic diversity of early sleek resources – literary, old, visible – to discover the character and use of Mahomet in a interval bounded via the beginnings of print and the early Enlightenment. This fabricated determine and his spurious biography have been forever recycled, but additionally challenged and vindicated, and the stories the English advised approximately him provide new views on their feel of the area – its geographies and religions, close to and much – and their position inside of it. This publication explores the position performed through Mahomet within the making of Englishness, and displays on what this is able to display approximately England's current circumstances.

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