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This collective volume explores the figure of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam and its pious transformations in later times. It illuminates the interplay of doctrine, literature and visual arts in the formation of a “Prophetic culture”.; Readership: Scientific and general readership interested in Islam and Muslim culture in different regional and historical contexts, Historical Anthropology of Religion, Comparative Religion, Religious Literature and Arts.

Biography. --- Muḥammad, --- Biographies --- History --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- Mahomed, --- Maḥmūd, --- Mahomet, --- Mohammed, --- Magomet, --- Mu-han-mo-te, --- Nabi Muhammad, --- Mukhammed, --- Maometto, --- Mahometto, --- Mohammad, --- Mahoma, --- Muḥamad, --- מוחמד, --- محمد, --- محمد الرسول, --- محمد النبي, --- محمد، --- محمد --- Humanities --- Islam --- Muh?ammad, --- History and criticism. --- Muhammad,

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The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed.This process of "purification" (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin.In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.

HISTORY / General. --- Occultism, history of academia, history of science. --- 1800-1999