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Some Considerations on the Depictions of the Prophet Muḥammad in Western Christian Manuscripts. 12th-16th Century

2018; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

2255-5889

Luis Fernando González Muñoz,

Medieval History and Crusades

The illustrations in medieval manuscripts provide the first graphic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Christian West. Between the late twelfth and the early sixteenth century we find a remarkable variety of cartoons, portraits and scenes from the biography of Muhammad in historical and encyclopedic works, in travel books to Oriental lands and in poetic texts, more rarely in doctrinal writings. In this paper we present an overview of this rich imagery, establishing the main types and briefly discussing their relationship with the different discourses that medieval Christian ideology drawn on the figure of the Prophet. References Cahn, Walter B. “The portrait of Muhammad in the Toledan Collection”, en Elizabeth Sears - Thelma K. Thomas: Reading Medieval Images. The Art Historien and the Object , Univ. of Michigan, 2002, pp. 51-60. Camille, Michael, El idolo gotico. Ideologia y creacion de imagenes en el arte medieval. Madrid, Akal, 2000. Cerulli, Enrico, Il libro della scala e la questione delle fonti arabo-spagnole della Divina Commedia. Citta del Vaticano, 1949 Cerulli, Enrico, Nuove Ricerche sul Libro della Scala e la conscenza dell’islam in occidente , Citta del Vaticano, 1972 Coffey, Heather, “Encountering the Body of Muhammad. Intersections between Mi’raj Narratives, the Saqq al-Sadr and the Divina Commedia in the Age before Print (c. 1300-1500)”, en Avinoam Shalem (ed.), Constructing the image of Muhammad in Europe , Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 33-86. D’Alverny, Ma Therese, “Deux traductions latines du Coran au Moyen Age” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et litteraire du Moyen Âge 16, 1948, pp. 69-131. Di Cesare, Michelina, “A 15th-Century Syncretistic Representation of the Prophet Muhammad in a French Manuscript (Bibliotheque nationale de France, ms. francais 52, f. 97r)”, Eurasian Studies 10, 2012, pp. 261-280. Di Cesare, Michelina, “The Prophet in the Book. Images of Muhammad in Western Medieval Book Culture”, en Avinoam Shalem (ed.), Constructing the image of Muhammad in Europe , Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 9-32. Di Cesare, Michelina, “Pietro il Venerabile, Ka’b al-Ahbar e il Signum Ionae : per una nuova interpretazione del ‘ritratto’ di Muhammad nel Corpus Cluniacense”, en Marco Palma – Cinzia Vismara (eds.), Per Gabriella. Studi in ricordo di Gabriella Braga, Cassino, Centro Editoriale d’Ateneo, 2013, pp. 771-798. Dimmock, Matthew, Mythologies of the prophet Muhammad in early modern english culture . Cambridge U.P. 2013 Gonzalez Munoz, Fernando, “Liber Nycholay. La leyenda de Mahoma y el cardenal Nicolas”. Al-qantara XXV/1, 2004, pp. 5-43. Guillaume, Alfred, The life of Muhammad. Oxford, 1955. Hedeman, Anne D. Translating the Past: Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio's De casibus. Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2008. Lewis, Suzanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Maiora. Berkeley-Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1987. Monteira Arias, Ines, El enemigo imaginado. La escultura romanica hispana y la lucha contra el islam. Toulouse, CNRS-Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2012. Roggema, Barbara, The Legend of Sergius Baḥīrā: Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam. E.J. Brill. 2009. Saenz-Lopez Perez, Sandra, “La peregrinacion a La Meca en la Edad Media a traves de la cartografia occidental”, Revista de poetica medieval 19, 2007, pp. 177-218. Shalem, Avinoam, Constructing the image of Muhammad in Europe , Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2013. Tolan, John V. “Un cadavre mutile. Le dechirement polemique de Mahomet”, Le Moyen Âge CIV, 1998, pp. 53-72. Tolan, John V. Saracens. Islam in the Medieval European Imagination. New York, Columbia U.P. 2002 Vanoli, Alessandro, “Tra cielo e terra. Idoli e immagini nel Mediterraneo medievale”, Revista MEAH , seccion hebreo 57, 2008, pp. 247-278.