Heretic and Hero: Muhammad and the Victorians

by Philip C. Almond

This book is concerned with Western images of Muhammad and Islam, and examines changing attitudes to the Prophet and Islam in 19th-century England: It analyzes the shifts in images of the Prophet from that of the profligate, heretical, lustful, ambitious imposter of the late medieval and early modern period to the much more sympathetic portrayal of Muhammad in the 19th century as a noble Arab, sincere, heroic, pious and courageous. It argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447029137
• ISBN13: 9783447029131
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.4"