John Tolan (Université de Nantes, France) gave a lecture on the 2nd of November 2020 on ‘Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today’ in the programme Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism.
Professor Tolan spoke about ‘Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today’. The preparatory readings are his publications from Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 2019):
* Muhammad: An Anticlerical Hero of the European Enlightenment
* Muhammad, Republican Revolutionary?
* The Prophet Muhammad: A Model of Monotheistic Reform for Nineteenth-century Ashkenaz
This lecture is organised in collaboration with Prof. Gerard Wiegers.