マホメット物語 : 人間として、預言者として(文化編)

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Muhammad was born around 570 in Mecca, a commercial centre of Arabia. After he became an orphan in his childhood, his clansmen looked after him. A widow with inherited property first employed him as her agent in a caravan to Syria, and then took him as husband. At the age of forty, Muhammad used to meditate in a cave in the hills outside Mecca. 0ne night, he saw a vision breaking the dark sky. Then,one day a call came to him in pure Arabic. In the course of these mystic experiences, he realized that he was the messenger of God. The author tries to elucidate Muhammad's vocation, from not only historical, but also spiritual points of view. While he was meditating, various elements of Judaic and Christian teachings and beliefs that Muhammad was in daily contact with suddenly took a fresh form and new meaning, which he came to consider as revelations. It prompted him to warn against the disintegration of social solidarity of the Meccan citizens resulting from the growing mercantile economy, and to create a new set of morals based on individual, not tribal, principle that would lead toward a universal religion.
大阪外国語大学の論文
1994-03-18