Document Type : Scientific-Research

Authors

1 Postdoctoral Researcher from AlZahra University and Iran national sciences foundation

2 Professor, Department of History, AlZahra University

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate the effect of evangelism on the imagination of English-speaking Islamic scholars of the Prophet of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This research tries to answer the question what was the effect of evangelism on the imagination of the Prophet of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? The fact is that there is a close relationship between the hegemony of colonialism and evangelism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as evangelism aims to create a Suitable thinking space to accept colonialism. At the same time, Islamic countries were a target for colonialism. As a result, evangelism alongside colonialism challenged manifestations of Islam's civilization, and he kept them out of attachment to his civilization and prepared them for Western domination. So this hypothesis is relevant that missionary writers with hostile views tried to portray the Prophet of Islam as a liar and therefore to weaken the foundations of Islamic civilization and to welcome Muslims to Western civilization with its manifestations.

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