Goethe muhammad song
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How German literary great Goethe admired the Orient, embraced Islam
The Age of Enlightenment, which gave rise to the French Revolution, undermined the church’s authority in Europe. While the church previously controlled all the information on Islam and Prophet Muhammad, this began to be questioned with the Enlightenment. The details on the prophet, in particular, were investigated once again, which manifested itself in the fields of culture, arts and literature.
Anti-Islamism under the control of the church lost influence; however, the hatred took a different form this time. For instance, Voltaire, a prominent French Enlightenment writer, pushed all his humanist ideas to the background and targeted Prophet Muhammad. He prepared a disparaging stage play featuring imputations about him, which formed a basis for many radical secularist plays.
Despite all these publications that fueled hatred in Europe, there were also those who praised and defended the prophet. German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the most prominent writers of world literature, is the poster child of t
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A life With Islām
Intellectual DIscourse, 27:2 (2019) 507–530 Copyright © IIUM Press I Print I nline Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A life With Islām. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre* Abstract: Goethe’s religiosity appears at the same time profoundly sincere yet escaping confessional labels. It has been claimed that Goethe was Christian, theist, mason, and even a pagan. Our work aims at studying Goethe’s reli iosit thro ho t his li e, and in artic lar in his relationshi with Isl all reli ions oethe st died and interacted with, Isl is re ar a l a sent from literary critic, yet he elaborated it throughout his life. We will propose a eriodisation which divides his relationshi with Isl into o r sta es, in which s eci c reli io s the es echo in his letters and wor s, ost o which have not been pointed out before, such as in the Faust. Finally, we will discuss o r ndin s in the conte t o reli io s st dies scholarshi , and a roach the iss e o what can oethe s est or the eanin o a ro ean Isl toda Keywords Isl Isl , oethe, eli io s st dies, iterar criticis , ro ean Abstrak
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Goethe and Islam
Goethe and Islam By Mohamed Soffar Ph D. Assistant Professor of political science Zayed university,UAE Few in our modern world are those, who never heard of Germany’s greatest man of letters, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, nor his magnum opus, Faust, an insurmountable peak of world literature. F ewer, however, are those, who ever heard that the 23 year old Goethe wrote a poem in praise of the Prophet of Islam, nor that the 70 year old Goethe celebrated the night in which the Quran was revealed. Between the two landmarks in Goethe’s career, there lie a lifetime interest and systematic study of the language of the Quran and the spiritual life of Islam. The fruit of such dedication was the less known and read of Goethe’s works, the West-Oestlicher Diwan, a marvelous collection of poems that reveals admiration to the religion of Islam. Peter-Anton von Arnim, a German Publisher, tells us that in contrast to the Lieder des Mirza Schaffy, a 19th century work of far less quality in the traditional Orientalist fashion, which reached 143 editions in the life of its author, cop
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