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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787645603321

Autore

Di Cesare Michelina

Titolo

Constructing the image of Muhammad in Europe / / edited by Avinoam Shalem ; co-authored by Michelina Di Cesare, Heather Coffey, and Alberto Saviello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-030086-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Classificazione

LH 84960

Altri autori (Persone)

CoffeyHeather

Di CesareMichelina

SavielloAlberto

ShalemAvinoam

Disciplina

740.4899763

Soggetti

Islam and art

Islam and culture - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Avinoam Shalem -- The prophet of the book : images of Muhammad in western medieval book culture / Michelina Di Cesare -- Encountering the body of Muhammad : intersections between miʻraj narratives, the Shaqq al-sadr, and the Divine commedia in the age before print / Heather Coffey -- Muhammad's multiple faces : printed images of the Prophet in Western Europe / Alberto Saviello -- Conclusion / Avinoam Shalem -- Selected bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

thevolume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout