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Tag Archives: Prophet Muhammad
Depiction of the Prophet Muhammad Under Mongolian Occupation
A hardly deniable cultural and, in particular, intellectual decline in the Islamic World began when, in 1258 CE, Baghdad had been sacked by the Mongolian Emperor Hülegü Khan (d. 1265), grandson of Chengis Khan. Hülegü was the brother of Möngke Khan … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Iran
Tagged Al Mustas'im, al-Biruni, Baghdad, Bilderverbot, Chengis Khan, Ghazan, Hülegü, Ilkhanid, Islamic Chinoiserie, Möngke, Mongolian Empire, Oljeitu, Prophet Muhammad, Rashid al-Din, Yuka Kadoi
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On Going Astray
Tilman Nagel. Mohammed – Leben und Legende. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, 1052 pages Operating on the premise that all Monotheism derives from the collective unconscious one may be able to describe and analyze the Creator’s biography during the centuries based on His … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Religion
Tagged Christoph Luxenberg, Inârah Institute, Jack Miles, Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Prophet Muhammad, Tilman Nagel
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The Farewell Sermon of the Prophet of Islam (S.A.W.)
I was sitting in an airplane of Saudi Arabian Airline. It had turned out to be extremely difficult for me, the infidel, to get the visa for the, at least for foreigners, isolated country of Islam. Countless times I had … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Religion
Tagged Arafat Day, Eid ul Adha, Farewell Sermon, Hajj, Jesus, Makkah, Prophet Muhammad, Saudi-Arabia, Sermon on the Mount
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A ‘Road to Damascus’ Experience of the Special Kind
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. phil. habil. Sven Muhammad Kalisch (42) seeks publicity these days. As may be traced in his rapidly inflated German Wikipedia entry, he had been appointed in 2004 chairman of the Islam Department at the Center for … Continue reading
Intercultural Competence
Random House has cancelled the scheduled publication of a novel about the life of Aisha, the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) by Sherry Jones. The prologue of the apparently childish book, “The Jewel of Medina”, which is intended … Continue reading
Posted in Islam
Tagged Aisha, Eliot Weinberger, intercultural competence, Jewel of Medina, Prophet Muhammad, Random House, Sherry Jones
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