John V. Tolan's Faces of Muhammad, Princeton University Press, 2019, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that it traces Western perceptions of the Prophet across many centuries, from the Middle Ages to today, drawing on a wide primary record of how those perceptions actually changed. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly synthesis of a very large subject: it necessarily compresses individual national and period traditions of representation that specialists in those narrower fields treat in more depth.
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Reliability tier 1: a scholarly study from a major university press tracing its subject across many centuries. NotesScholarly study of Western perceptions of Muhammad from the Middle Ages to today, Princeton University Press, 2019.
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AuthorJohn V. Tolan
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year2019
Source Typeacademic monograph
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