Muhammad

During the almost one thousand years of European obsession with Islam, only a few authors have tried to rise above their contemporaries by presenting a more balanced view of this religious ideology. Armstrong's main aim is to encourage "this more tolerant, compassionate, and courageous tr...

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Autor principal: Ilyas Ba-Yunus
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Publicado: International Institute of Islamic Thought 1993
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:68fd10bd334a4bfe978bbb8058b6c4092021-12-02T19:40:12ZMuhammad10.35632/ajis.v10i3.24972690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/68fd10bd334a4bfe978bbb8058b6c4091993-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2497https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 During the almost one thousand years of European obsession with Islam, only a few authors have tried to rise above their contemporaries by presenting a more balanced view of this religious ideology. Armstrong's main aim is to encourage "this more tolerant, compassionate, and courageous tradition" (p. 15). From the very beginning, it is apparent that this book is written with an unsurpassed empathy and that it contains a degree of dismay and resentment that the truth about the Prophet and Islam has been compromised and hidden by ethnocentric European writers inspired either by the Christian church and its missionaries or modem secularism. The main strength of the book lies in the fact that the author is not a run-of-the-mill orientalist With experience as a free-lance writer, commentator, and television documentary producer, Armstrong does not avoid the themes so dear to European critics of the Prophet, but deals with them directly. For instance, rather than rationalizing the Prophet's polygamy, ... Ilyas Ba-YunusInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 10, Iss 3 (1993)
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description During the almost one thousand years of European obsession with Islam, only a few authors have tried to rise above their contemporaries by presenting a more balanced view of this religious ideology. Armstrong's main aim is to encourage "this more tolerant, compassionate, and courageous tradition" (p. 15). From the very beginning, it is apparent that this book is written with an unsurpassed empathy and that it contains a degree of dismay and resentment that the truth about the Prophet and Islam has been compromised and hidden by ethnocentric European writers inspired either by the Christian church and its missionaries or modem secularism. The main strength of the book lies in the fact that the author is not a run-of-the-mill orientalist With experience as a free-lance writer, commentator, and television documentary producer, Armstrong does not avoid the themes so dear to European critics of the Prophet, but deals with them directly. For instance, rather than rationalizing the Prophet's polygamy, ...
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