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Book SynopsisThe three-volume series titled The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of the representation of the Prophet Muhammad in the course of Muslim history until the present. This first collective volume outlines his figure in the early Islamic tradition, and its later transformations until recent times that were shaped by Prophet-centered piety and politics. A variety of case studies offers a unique overview of the interplay of Sunnī amd Shīʿī doctrines with literature and arts in the formation of his image. They trace the integrative and conflictual qualities of a “Prophetic culture”, in which the Prophet of Islam continues his presence among the Muslim believers. Contributors Hiba Abid, Nelly Amri, Caterina Bori, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Adrien de Jarmy, Daniel De Smet, Mohamed Thami El Harrak, Brigitte Foulon, Denis Gril, Christiane Gruber, Tobias Heinzelmann, David Jordan, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Samuela Pagani, Alexandre Papas, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Meryem Sebti, Dilek Sarmis, Matthieu Terrier, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Marc Toutant, Ruggiero Vimercati Sanseverino.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors The Presence of the Prophet: General Introduction Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth The Prophet between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Introduction to Volume I Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis part 1: Images of the Prophet in Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, and Sīra/Maghāzī, and their Cultural Embedding 1 The Prophet in the Qurʾān An Attempt at a Synthesis Denis Gril 2 Dating the Emergence of the Warrior-Prophet in Maghāzī Literature Second/Eighth to the Fourth/Tenth Century Adrien de Jarmy 3 Ḥadīth Culture and Ibn Taymiyya’s Controversial Legacy in Early Fifteenth Century Damascus Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and His al-Radd Al-Wāfir (d. 842/1438) Caterina Bori 4 “There Is Matter for Thought” The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen part 2: Towards a Theology of Devotion to the Prophet in Sunnī Islam 5 Theology of Veneration of the Prophet Muḥammad Doctrine and Love in the Shifāʾ of al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544/1149) Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 6 “Special Features of the Prophet” (Khaṣāʾiṣ nabawiyya) From Jurisprudence to Devotion Michele Petrone 7 Modèle prophétique et modèle de sainteté dans le soufisme ancien Quelques exemples Pierre Lory 8 L’éducation par « la lumière de la foi du Prophète » selon le shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh (m. 1332/1719) D’après le Kitāb al-Ibrīz de Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak (m. 1156/1743) Jean-Jacques Thibon part 3: The Prophet in Shīʿī Doctrine and in Islamic Philosophy 9 The Prophet Muḥammad in Imāmī Shīʿism Between History and Metaphysics Mathieu Terrier 10 The Prophet Muḥammad and His Heir ʿAlī Their Historical, Metahistorical and Cosmological Roles in Ismāʿīlī Shīʿism Daniel De Smet 11 La dimension éthique et politique de la révélation prophétique chez les falāsifa Meryem Sebti part 4: The Splendour of Words: Exaltation of the Prophet in Islamic Literatures 12 “I Have Mandated It to Fly to You on the Wings of My Ardent Desire” Letter to the Prophet Written by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1375) on Behalf of the Naṣrid Ruler of Granada Nelly Amri 13 Les poèmes d’éloge du Prophète de Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khāṭīb (713-776/1313-1374 ou 75) Brigitte Foulon 14 Présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique (madīḥ) et de l’audition spirituelle (samāʿ) Approche thématique Mohamed Thami El Harrak 15 Timurid Accounts of Ascension (miʿrāj) in Türkī One Prophet, Two Models Marc Toutant 16 Miʿrāciyye The Ascension of the Prophet in Ottoman Literature from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Alexandre Papas part 5: The Prophet in the Mirror of the Verbal, Scriptural and Pictorial Imagery: Aesthetics and Devotion 17 The Reality and Image of the Prophet according to the Theologian and Poet ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī Samuela Pagani 18 The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles Christiane Gruber 19 Visualising the Prophet – Rhetorical and Graphic Aspects of Three Ottoman-Turkish Poems Süleymān Çelebi’s Vesīlet en-Necāt, Yazıcıoğlı’s Risāle-i Muḥammedīye, and Ḫāḳānī’s Ḥilye Tobias Heinzelmann 20 The World of al-Qandūsī (d. 1278/1861) Prophetology and Calligraphy in Morocco During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Francesco Chiabotti and Hiba Abid Index
