Mythologies of the prophet Muhammad in early modern English culture / Matthew Dimmock.

"The figure of 'Mahomet' was widely known in early modern England. A grotesque version of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahomet was a product of vilification, caricature and misinformation placed at the centre of Christian conceptions of Islam. In Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvi, 291 p. :; ill.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: fabricating Mahomet; Part I. 'Well Rehearsed' in 'Books Old': Early Print and the Life of Mahomet: 1. From Polychronicon to The Golden Legend (and back); 2. The Fall of Princes; 3. Sir John Mandeville and the Travels; 4. Mahomet and the exclusive polemic; Part II. Most Like to Mahomet: Religious History and Reformation Mutability: 5. Preaching equivalence; 6. Painted words: Mahomet in the late sixteenth-century histories; Part III. Old Mahomet's Head: Idols, Papists and Mortus Ali on the English Stage: 7. Romance and idolatry; 8. Islamic idols and stage Mahomets; 9. Mahomet, Mortus Ally and the Pope; Part IV. Bunyan's Dilemma: Seventeenth-Century Imposture, Liberty and True Mahomets; 10. The fables and the fabler; 11. Imposturae; 12. A stupendous revolution; Conclusion: Mahomet discovered; Bibliography; Index.