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| An Eastern Hero: Biographies of Muhammad in Imperial Japan | ||
| 作者 | Koyagi, Mikiya (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Modern Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.57 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2023.05 |
| 頁次 | 693 - 710 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, USA. |
| 關鍵詞 | Pan-Asianism; Islam; Japan; Buddhism; Nichirenism; biography; civilization; world religion |
| 摘要 | While participating in the discourse of world religions, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad’s life in many genres of academic and popular books during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868–1926). This article unravels how these biographical accounts played a crucial role in facilitating a geographical imaginary of Asia/the East which incorporated both Japan and West Asia. Situated in a radically different context from the Victorian biographers who inspired them, Japanese biographers constantly compared Muhammad to historical figures familiar to them, most notably Buddha and Nichiren, and reinterpreted the life of Muhammad, relying exclusively on European-language sources. In particular, in contrast to another strand of pan-Asianism that stressed peacefulness as an inherent quality of the East, the biographers identified Muhammad’s perceived militancy and the miracles he performed as signs of the values shared by Japan and Islamic civilization. Using the person of Muhammad as a concrete piece of evidence, Japanese biographers reimagined an Eastern civilizational space that could stretch from Tokyo to Mecca. |
| 目次 | Abstract 693 Keywords 693 Introduction 693 Hero-worship in Meiji Japan 698 Recasting Muhammad 702 Miracles of Muhammad 707 Conclusion 708 Acknowledgements 710 Competing interests 710 |
| ISSN | 0026749X (P); 14698099 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0026749X22000300 |
| 點閱次數 | 62 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.06.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.06.21 |
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