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

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Studia Ceranea Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI:10.18778/2084-140x.13.02
Błażej Cecota
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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.
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忏悔者提奥法尼对先知的证词中的犹太主题Muḥammad
提奥芬尼关于伊斯兰教兴起和先知Muḥammad历史的记述,似乎是拜占庭史学中可以找到的最详细和精确的记载。《忏悔者》的目的是尽可能多地再现Muḥammad的生活细节。由于他的重点不是宗教思想,而是围绕新宗教兴起的关键事件,他的叙述并不主要关注讨论伊斯兰教的意识形态。然而,这并不能使我们认为它在任何方面是客观的。其中包含的一些观点的明确目标是诋毁伊斯兰教是与基督教相抗衡的宗教。例如,提奥芬尼关于Muḥammad和犹太人关系的评论就是这样说的。在这篇文章中,我把重点放在提奥芬叙述的这一方面,在关于犹太人和穆斯林关系的长期(过去几十年)学术辩论的背景下讨论它。
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