Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad

Download or read book Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad written by Abdul Karim Bangura and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the “Hundred-Word Eulogy,” a 100-character praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant Islamic texts. The book has become quite revered by many Muslim individuals and organizations across the globe. Yet, no work exists that has systematically analyzed the text. The purpose of this book, then, is to fill this vacuum. Methods from the fields of history, literary analysis, and pragmatic linguistics are employed to provide multidisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of the text, undergirded by the notion of meaning.