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by Ahmad Gunny (Author)
"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts." -Islamic Horizons
Author Biography
Ahmad Gunny: Ahmad Gunny is Fellow and Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. His works include Voltaire and English literature (1979), Images of Islam in Eighteenth-Century Writings (1996), Perceptions of Islam in European Writings (2004), and critical editions of Voltaire's miscellaneous texts, including 'De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet' in the Complete Works of Voltaire. In 2009 he received the award of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French Government.
