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The Prophet of Islam in Old French gives the first English translation of the only medieval French narratives that present comprehensive accounts of Muhammad's prophethood: Alexandre du Pont's Romance of Muhammad from 1258 and the 1264 translation of a Muslim apocalypse, The Book of Muhammad's Ladder.
The introduction addresses the problems of the romance's divergence from conventional Christian representations of Muhammad's confirmation as prophet and the absence of Christian commentary in the apocalypse. It discusses the traditions regarding Muhammad's prophethood, the conventions of the apocalyptic genre, and the propagandistic aims of both narratives in relation to the crusades and missionary activity at that time.
These works are of particular interest because they are the first to present to a French lay audience the topic of Muhammad's prophethood, and scholars have long debated whether the apocalypse influenced Dante's Divine Comedy.
The introduction addresses the problems of the romance's divergence from conventional Christian representations of Muhammad's confirmation as prophet and the absence of Christian commentary in the apocalypse. It discusses the traditions regarding Muhammad's prophethood, the conventions of the apocalyptic genre, and the propagandistic aims of both narratives in relation to the crusades and missionary activity at that time.
These works are of particular interest because they are the first to present to a French lay audience the topic of Muhammad's prophethood, and scholars have long debated whether the apocalypse influenced Dante's Divine Comedy.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
01 April 1997
ISBN: 9789004107021
Format: Other
"The volume stands as an important first moment in the dissemination of these texts to the English-speaking world and a valuable contribution to the ongoing study of their content as well as their implications about the nuanced and porous relationship of medieval Europe to the cultural wealth of the Muslim world."
Ryan W. Szpiech, The Medieval Review, 2002.
Ryan W. Szpiech, The Medieval Review, 2002.
Reginald Hyatte, Ph.D. (1971) in Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa. He published previously The Arts of Friendship (Brill, 1994), Laughter for the Devil, and L'Harmonie des sphères.