The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory

The emergence and expansion of Islam have been considered a severe challenge to Christianity. With its significant expansion, the Christians became so much exasperated. Thus, they started searching for every possible avenue to do away with it. In medieval period, many intellectual and military attac...

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Main Authors:	Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu, Abdul Rahim, Adibah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Zes Rokman Resources 2016
Subjects:	BL Religion
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51541/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51541/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51541/7/51541.pdf

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spelling	iium-515412016-10-14T07:30:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51541/ The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu Abdul Rahim, Adibah BL Religion The emergence and expansion of Islam have been considered a severe challenge to Christianity. With its significant expansion, the Christians became so much exasperated. Thus, they started searching for every possible avenue to do away with it. In medieval period, many intellectual and military attacks were lunched against Islam. One of the strategies was to create false theories which portrayed Prophet MuÍammad (p.b.u.h) negatively and damagingly. The most absurd theory was ‘pathological theory’ which attempted to charge the Prophet (p.b.u.h) of being epileptic. Although many attempts have been made by both Muslims and some less biased Christian scholars to fish this theory out from the scene, it continues to have relevance even in some of the well-learned contemporary Christian scholar’s writings. This study attempts to analyse and evaluate David Samuel Margoliouth’s views on this theory since he is one of the well-versed and contemporary Islamists. In doing so, analytical, comparative and evaluative methods would be used. Zes Rokman Resources 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51541/7/51541.pdf Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu and Abdul Rahim, Adibah (2016) The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory. In: Kuala Lumpur International Islamic Studies and Civilisations Conference 2016 (KLIISC), 7th-8th May 2016, Kuala Lumpur. http://kliisc.com/
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description	The emergence and expansion of Islam have been considered a severe challenge to Christianity. With its significant expansion, the Christians became so much exasperated. Thus, they started searching for every possible avenue to do away with it. In medieval period, many intellectual and military attacks were lunched against Islam. One of the strategies was to create false theories which portrayed Prophet MuÍammad (p.b.u.h) negatively and damagingly. The most absurd theory was ‘pathological theory’ which attempted to charge the Prophet (p.b.u.h) of being epileptic. Although many attempts have been made by both Muslims and some less biased Christian scholars to fish this theory out from the scene, it continues to have relevance even in some of the well-learned contemporary Christian scholar’s writings. This study attempts to analyse and evaluate David Samuel Margoliouth’s views on this theory since he is one of the well-versed and contemporary Islamists. In doing so, analytical, comparative and evaluative methods would be used.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu Abdul Rahim, Adibah
author_facet	Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu Abdul Rahim, Adibah
author_sort	Aliyu, Muhammad Akilu
title	The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory
title_short	The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory
title_full	The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory
title_fullStr	The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory
title_full_unstemmed	The ramnent of medieval Christian attitudes towards Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of Margoliouth's pathological theory
title_sort	ramnent of medieval christian attitudes towards prophet muhammad (p.b.u.h): a critical evaluation of margoliouth's pathological theory
publisher	Zes Rokman Resources
publishDate	2016
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