The Dancing Muhammad of Le Grand bal de la Douairière de Billebahaut

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Images of the Prophet Muhammad in a Global Context 1
4. The Prophet Encountered
5. Counterhistory in the Earliest Latin Lives of Muhammad 13
6. The Prophet Muhammad in Pre-Modern Jewish Literatures 27
7. Collecting the Dead Body of the Prophet Muhammad 45
8. The Prophet Depicted
9. Muhammad As Warrior Prophet 65
10. Muhammad and an Adoration of the Magi in the Gulbenkian Anthology of 813/1411 77
11. Infused with Shi'ism 97
12. Plates 113
13. The Prophet Visualized
14. Meanings of Muhammad in Later Medieval Art 147
15. Mahomet Pseudo-Prophète et les Musulmans Idolâtres dans la sculpture romane (IX–XIII siècle) 165
16. Reading the Bible through Glass: The Image of Muhammad in the Sainte-Chapelle 187
17. A Sixteenth-Century European Author Portrait of Muhammad and Medieval Latin Traditions of Qur'an Reading 201
18. Muhammad, Mandeville, and Maximilian 223
19. The Prophet Reformed and Revised
20. Religious Polemics and Visual Realism in a late 16th-Century Biography of the Prophet Muhammad 241
21. Impostor or Lawgiver? 261
22. The Prophet Appropriated and Applauded
23. The Dancing Muhammad of Le Grand bal de la Douairière de Billebahaut 273
24. Muhammad Learning the Dao and Writing Sutras 295
25. Between Convivencia and Reconquista 311
26. “Yankee Mahomet” 337
27. Masonic Fraternalism and Muhammad Among the Lawgivers in Adolph A. Weinman’s Sculpture Frieze for the United States Supreme Court (1931–1935) 357
28. Author’s Biographies 383
29. Index 387