The Jewish Theme in Theophanes the Confessor’s Testimony on the Prophet Muḥammad

Cecota, Błażej

dc.contributor.author	Cecota, Błażej
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-06T10:14:35Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-06T10:14:35Z
dc.date.issued	2023-10-13
dc.identifier.issn	2084-140X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/50683
dc.description.abstract	Theophanes’ account regarding the rise of Islam and the history of the Prophet Muḥammad appears to be the most detailed and precise one that can be found in Byzantine historiography. The Confessor’s aim was to reproduce as many details about Muḥammad’s life as possible. Since his focus was not on religious ideas, but on key events surrounding the rise of the new religion, his account is not predominantly concerned with discussing Islam’s ideology. However, this does not allow us to regard it as in any way objective. Some of the views it contains were included with the clear goal of discrediting Islam as a religion that rivalled Christianity. This, for example, can be said of Theophanes’ remarks about the relationship between Muḥammad and the Jews. In this article, I focus on this aspect of Theophanes’ account, discussing it in the context of the long-running (the last several decades) scholarly debates regarding Jewish-Muslim relations.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studia Ceranea	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	Theophanes the Confessor	en
dc.subject	Byzantine historiography	en
dc.subject	Christian-Muslim relations	en
dc.subject	Muhhamad	en
dc.subject	Islam’s Prophet	en
dc.title	The Jewish Theme in Theophanes the Confessor’s Testimony on the Prophet Muḥammad	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	255-269
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Piotrków Academy in Piotrków Trybunalski	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8378
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	blazejcecota@wp.pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2084-140X.13.02
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