Mahound

Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,

10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

The devils, headed by Satan, perform a mock pagan mass to Mahound, which is the old name for Mohammed.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

The devils, headed by Satan, perform a mock pagan mass to Mahound, which is the old name for Mohammed.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

The medieval lack of historic sense gives to all the plays the setting of the authors 'own times; Roman officers appear as feudal knights; and all the heathens (including the Jews) are Saracens, worshippers of' Mahound 'and' Termagaunt '; while the good characters, however long they may really have lived before the Christian era, swear stoutly by St. John and St. Paul and the other medieval Christian divinities.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

The early Christian Church was driven off the face of the earth into catacombs, but emerged to rule supreme in the very city which had driven her underground; Muhammad barely escaped from Mecca with his life, but returned to make it the centre of his creed, and Crusaders died in hopeless defeat at Hattin cursing "Mahound" with their last breath as the enemy of their faith, yet their very presence there showed how Islam had revived Christianity.

Pan-Islam

The cast of characters, their overlap with historical figures including Bollywood actors/actresses and their affairs, producers, not to mention Khomeini and ..of course Mahound and the verve of the writing.

Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”

Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”

Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”

Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

As Michiko Kakutani explained in a review of the novel in The New York Times just after the fatwa was issued, one character in the novel is “a businessman turned prophet named Mahound - a figure whom Muslim critics regard as a thinly and perversely disguised representation of the Prophet Mohammed.”

Fatwa on Rushdie Turns 20, Still in Force - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009