Mahomet the Impostor. A Tragedy. [In Verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, Acts I.-IV. by James Miller, Act V. by J. Hoadly. With a Dedicatory Epistle by Dorothy Miller.].

Mahomet the Impostor. A Tragedy. [In Verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, Acts I.-IV. by James Miller, Act V. by J. Hoadly. With a Dedicatory Epistle by Dorothy Miller.].
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Synopsis Mahomet the Impostor. A Tragedy. [In Verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, Acts I.-IV. by James Miller, Act V. by J. Hoadly. With a Dedicatory Epistle by Dorothy Miller.]. by : Voltaire

The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken

The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 052140536X
ISBN-13 : 9780521405362
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Synopsis The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken by : J. A. I. Champion

First published in 1992, this book examines the intellectual confrontation between priest and Freethinker from 1660 to 1730, and the origins of the early phase of the Enlightenment in England. Through an analysis of the practice of historical writing in the period, Champion maintains that historical argument was a central component for displaying defences of true religion. Taking religion, and specifically defences of the Church of England after 1660, as central to the politics of the period, the first two chapters of the book explore the varieties of clericalist histories, arguing that there were rival emphases upon regnum or sacerdos as the font of true religion. The remainder of the book examines how radical Freethinkers like John Toland or the third Earl of Shaftesbury set about attacking the corrupt priestcraft of established religion, but also importantly promoted a reforming civil theology.

Faces of Muhammad

Faces of Muhammad
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780691270982
ISBN-13 : 0691270988
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Synopsis Faces of Muhammad by : John Tolan

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.

Foreign Plays in English

Foreign Plays in English
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Total Pages : 104
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Synopsis Foreign Plays in English by : New York Public Library

Mahomet (The Impostor)

Mahomet (The Impostor)
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Synopsis Mahomet (The Impostor) by : James Miller

Description: An adaptation of Voltaire's tragedy of the same name.

Mahomet the Impostor. A tragedy. In verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, acts I.-IV. by James Miller, act v. by J. Hoadly. With a dedicatory epistle by Dorothy Miller

Mahomet the Impostor. A tragedy. In verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, acts I.-IV. by James Miller, act v. by J. Hoadly. With a dedicatory epistle by Dorothy Miller
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Synopsis Mahomet the Impostor. A tragedy. In verse. Adapted from the French of Voltaire, acts I.-IV. by James Miller, act v. by J. Hoadly. With a dedicatory epistle by Dorothy Miller by : Voltaire

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780307388391
ISBN-13 : 0307388395
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Synopsis Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an by : Denise Spellberg

In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.

The Atheist's Bible

The Atheist's Bible
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780226821061
ISBN-13 : 0226821064
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Synopsis The Atheist's Bible by : Georges Minois

A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book. Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book—De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three Impostors—in which Frederick denounced Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as impostors. Of course, Frederick denied the charge, and over the following centuries the story played out across Europe, with libertines, freethinkers, and other “strong minds” seeking a copy of the scandalous text. The fascination persisted until finally, in the eighteenth century, someone brought the purported work into actual existence—in not one but two versions, Latin and French. Although historians have debated the origins and influences of this nonexistent book, there has not been a comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors. In The Atheist’s Bible, the eminent historian Georges Minois tracks the course of the book from its origins in 1239 to its most salient episodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, introducing readers to the colorful individuals obsessed with possessing the legendary work—and the equally obsessive passion of those who wanted to punish people who sought it. Minois’s compelling account sheds much-needed light on the power of atheism, the threat of blasphemy, and the persistence of free thought during a time when the outspoken risked being burned at the stake.