خلاصة:
This study attempts to reproduce the principles of Protestant Christianity in the Victorian colonial period by imagining the character of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) in the book “The Life of Muhammad” by William Muir. This article answers the question that as one of the earliest texts written in the nineteenth century in a form close to modern academic and methodological research, why Muir’s book still reflects the religious attitude of Protestant Christianity? And basically, how is this reflection recognizable? As an employee of the colonial government as well as a Protestant missionary, Muir is a good example of the intellectual atmosphere of his time. Despite the extensive use of Islamic sources in the processing of ideas about the Prophet of Islam, he still reproduced Protestant religious traditions. By comparing the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) with Jesus (PBUH), Muir reflected ideas that make Islam harsh, anti-civilized, and false. A study of such texts shows why, despite dramatic scientific developments in the Western world, until the middle of the twentieth century, religious attitude still had the strongest influence on the ideas developed about the Prophet.
ملخص الجهاز:
In this writing, the question is answered as to why Muir's book, although it is one of the early texts written in the nineteenth century in a form close to modern academic and methodical research, still reflects the religious paradigms of Protestant Christianity?
William Muir, a high-ranking official of the British diplomatic apparatus in the Indian subcontinent and a missionary with strong religious beliefs, was a suitable representative of the intellectual atmosphere of the Victorian colonial era; therefore, the text produced by him regarding the Prophet of Islam depicts the goals and contexts governing this intellectual space.
Research Background The valuable book "Islamic Studies in the English-speaking West from the Beginning to the Second Vatican Council" (1965), written by Morteza Asadi (2002), describes the image of the Prophet of Islam in the field of English literature with more explanations by examining the views of individuals such as William Muir 1, Thomas Carlyle 2, and Charles Foster 3.
Clinton Bennett In a part of his first book, the author has addressed writers such as Muir, but in his second book, he has tried to answer questions such as "What theological concept of Islam did Victorian Christians hold?" The Dominant Intellectual Space in Muhammadology in the Nineteenth Century Norman Daniel believes that the beliefs created about Islam and the Prophet became prevalent in Europe from the Latin world and through images that the Greeks had constructed about the Arabs, and similarly, they originated from the Arab Christians in Spain and the Spanish Christians who were subjects of the Arab and Muslim government (p.
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