Henry Stubbe and the beginnings of Islam : the Originall & progress of Mahometanism /

Henry Stubbe and the beginnings of Islam : the Originall & progress of Mahometanism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676, author.
Uniform title:	Account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 274 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Stubbe, Henry, -- 1632-1676. Stubbe, Henry, -- 1632-1676. Islam -- Early works to 1800. Islam. Electronic books. Early works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382743

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Other authors / contributors:	Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949- editor, writer of introduction.
ISBN:	9780231527361 0231527365 9780231156646 0231156642
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism. Henry Stubbe and the beginnings of Islam 9780231156646

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the "Copernican revolution" of Henry Stubbe
The life of Henry Stubbe
The originall & progress of mahometanism
Arabic studies in England
Isa: the Qur'anic Jesus
The Prophet Muhammad
"Let us then fancy the gallant Aly"
Islam and empire
The printed and manuscript sources: editorial policy
The originall & progress of mahometanism.