Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism
ISBN: 9780231527361
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Islam -- Early works to 1800; Stubbe Henry 1632–1676;

the first English text to positively document the Prophet Muhammad's life, celebrate the Qur'ān as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility


Nabil Matar is Presidential Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the History Department and the Religious Studies Program. He has written extensively on relations between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterranean. His latest publications were with Gerald MacLean, Britain and the Islamic World , and with Judy Hayden, Through the Eyes of the Beholder: The Holy Land, 1517-1713 . His forthcoming work is British Captives in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1563-1760 .
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