WESTERN IMAGE OF MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AS A PROPHET
WESTERN IMAGE OF MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AS A PROPHET

Summary/Abstract: The Western academic awareness of Muhammad’s Prophethood helped the West to understand Islam. Since the spread of Islam in the seventh century, the Western church had perceived Islam as a great threat. It tried to check its spread by projecting Islam in the role of a dreadful and unpleasant enemy. The church represented Prophet Muhammad on biased studies. Christian writers distorted the image of the Prophet. They dubbed him with a derogatory title of an imposter, heretic or infidel, idol of Muslims, devil and anti-Christ. In fact, in his call to Islam, the Prophet informed early Christians and Jews in Madinah that he had come to testify Jesus and Moses. Although he proves that Prophet Jesus was neither a god nor part of God the Almighty; he was an elect Messenger of God (the Qur’an, 5:115- 118). Western prejudice against Prophet Muhammad is anchored in misapprehension and misrepresentation.

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