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Fanaticism, or Mohammed the prophet

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN 13 : 3989882279
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Fanaticism, or Mohammed the prophet written by Voltaire and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation directly from the original French manuscript of Voltaire's 1741 "Fanaticism, or Mohammed the prophet". This edition also contains supplemental material on Voltaire including an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Voltaire's life and works, summaries of each of the works in his corpus, and a glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Voltaire. This tragedy was a favorite of Nietzsche who wrote in Human, All Too Human: "One only has to read Voltaire's Mahomet [Fanaticism] from time to time to see clearly in one's mind what has been lost once and for all to European culture through that breaking off of tradition. Voltaire was the last of the great dramatists who tamed his many-faceted soul, which was also able to withstand the greatest tragic storms, by means of Greek measures".

Fanaticism, Or Mahomet the Prophet

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Litwin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781936117819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Fanaticism, Or Mahomet the Prophet written by Voltaire and published by Litwin Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new translation of Voltaire's melodrama, originally titled, Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prophete, intended for a modern, English-speaking audience, with introductory materials explaining the play in its historical context and Voltaire's relation to Islam"--Provided by publisher.

Mahomet the Prophet

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahomet the Prophet written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play is a study of religious fanaticism and self-serving manipulation based on an episode in the traditional biography of Muhammad in which he orders the murder of his critics. Voltaire described the play as "written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect".

Le Fanatisme Ou Mahomet Le Prophete

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104245504
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Le Fanatisme Ou Mahomet Le Prophete written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Mahomet the Prophet Or Fanaticism

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Mahomet the Prophet Or Fanaticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mahomet the Prophet, Or Fanaticism

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780804469609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Mahomet the Prophet, Or Fanaticism written by Voltaire and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Author : Matthew Dimmock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032911
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture written by Matthew Dimmock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.

Faces of Muhammad

Author : John Tolan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167060
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Muhammad written by John Tolan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the “Saracens,” he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day. Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. To Reformation polemicists, the spread of Islam attested to the corruption of the established Church, and prompted them to depict Muhammad as a champion of reform. In revolutionary England, writers on both sides of the conflict drew parallels between Muhammad and Oliver Cromwell, asking whether the prophet was a rebel against legitimate authority or the bringer of a new and just order. Voltaire first saw Muhammad as an archetypal religious fanatic but later claimed him as an enemy of superstition. To Napoleon, he was simply a role model: a brilliant general, orator, and leader. The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam.

Mahomet

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022656543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Mahomet written by Voltaire and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahomet is a play by the French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire. The play is a critique of religious fanaticism and intolerance, and features a portrayal of the founder of Islam, Muhammad. Despite being a work of fiction written in the 18th century, the play raises important questions about the nature of religious belief and its relation to violence and conflict. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of ideas, religion, and the Enlightenment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Civil Society and Fanaticism

Author : Dominique Colas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727365
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Fanaticism written by Dominique Colas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical refeerences and index.

Fanaticism

Author : Alberto Toscano
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630559
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Fanaticism written by Alberto Toscano and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted interpretation in exploring the critical role fanaticism played in forming modern politics and the liberal state. Tracing its development from the traumatic Peasants' War of early sixteenth-century Germany to contemporary Islamism, Toscano tears apart the sterile opposition of 'reasonableness' and fanaticism. Instead, in a radical new interpretation, he places the fanatic at the very heart of politics, arguing that historical and revolutionary transformations require a new understanding of his role. Showing how fanaticism results from the failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism.

Fanaticism and the History of Philosophy

Author : Paul Katsafanas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990745
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Fanaticism and the History of Philosophy written by Paul Katsafanas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire called fanaticism the "monster that pretends to be the child of religion". Philosophers, politicians, and cultural critics have decried fanaticism and attempted to define the distinctive qualities of the fanatic, whom Winston Churchill described as "someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject". Yet despite fanaticism’s role in the long history of social discord, human conflict, and political violence, it remains a relatively neglected topic in the history of philosophy. In this outstanding inquiry into the philosophical history of fanaticism, a team of international contributors examine the topic from antiquity to the present day. Organized into four sections, topics covered include: Fanaticism in ancient Greek, Indian, and Chinese philosophy; Fanaticism and superstition from Hobbes to Hume, including chapters on Locke and Montesquieu, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson; Kant, Germaine de Stael, Hegel, Nietzsche, William James, and Jorge Portilla on fanaticism; Fanaticism and terrorism; and extremism and gender, including the philosophy and morality of the "manosphere"; Closed-mindedness and political and epistemological fanaticism. Spanning themes from superstition, enthusiasm, and misanthropy to the emotions, purity, and the need for certainty, Fanaticism and the History of Philosophy is a landmark volume for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, particularly ethics and moral philosophy. It is also a valuable resource for those studying fanaticism in related fields such as religion, the history of political thought, sociology, and the history of ideas.

The Life of Mahomet

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230232362
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Mahomet written by Washington Irving and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... "The Sword of God," by which he was afterwards renowned. CHAPTER XXIX. Designs upon Mecca.--Mission of Abu Sofian.--Its result. Mahomet, by force either of arms or eloquence, had now acquired dominion over a great number of the Arabian tribes. He had many thousand warriors under his command; sons of the desert, inured (o hunger, thirst, and the scorching rays of the sun, and to whom war was a sport, rather than a toil. He had corrected their intemperance, disciplined their valour, and subjected them to rule. Repeated victories had given them confidence in themselves and in their leader, whose standard they followed with the implicit obedience of soldiers, and the blind fanaticism of disciples. The views of Mahomet expanded with his means, and a grand enterprise now opened upon his mind. Mecca, his native city, the abode of his family for generations, the scene of his happiest years, was still in the hands of his implacable foes. The Caaba, the object of devotion and pilgrimage to all the children of Ishmael, the shrine of his earliest worship, was still profaned by the emblems and rites of idolatry. To plant the standard of the faith on the walls of his native city, to rescue the holy house from profanation, restore it to the spiritual worship of the one true God, and make it the rallying point of Islamism, formed now the leading object of his ambition. The treaty of peace existing with the Koreishites was an impediment to any military enterprise; but some casual feuds and skirmishings soon gave a pretext for charging them with having violated the treaty stipulations. The Koreishites had by this time learned to appreciate and dread the rapidly increasing power of the Moslems, and were eager to explain away, or atone for, the quarrels and...

The Theatrical Public Sphere

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139991817
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Theatrical Public Sphere written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642, theatre's use of media, controversies surrounding race, religion and blasphemy, and theatre's place in a new age of globalised aesthetics. Balme concludes by addressing the relationship of theatre today with the public sphere and whether theatre's transformation into an art form has made it increasingly irrelevant for contemporary society.

Mahomet and Islam

Author : Sir William Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahomet and Islam written by Sir William Muir and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life of Mahomet

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Life of Mahomet written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barbarism Revisited

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309276
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism Revisited written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.