The Figure of the Prophet in Islam (2024)

Azaiez, Mehdi, Rémy Gareil, and Iyas Hassan, eds. Itinerant Prophets: Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam. Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 12. De Gruyter, 2024. 550 pp.

“About this book

The figure of the prophet circulates in all fields of the textual and visual production of premodern Islam. This volume focuses on two aspects of this phenomenon: On the one hand, it investigates the historical transformations of this figure in diverse social and political contexts and genres of Islamic culture. On the other hand, it explores how traits associated with prophets were ascribed to other historical or mythical figures.

Author / Editor information

M. Azaiez, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; R. Gareil, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France; I. Hassan, Sorbonne Université.”

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