穆罕默德 (戲劇)

Mahomet
Mahomet
	1753年版穆罕默德的卷首圖畫（英語：Book frontispiece）
劇作家	伏爾泰
角色	穆罕默德，伊斯蘭教的創立者; Zopir，麥加的領導者; 歐麥爾，穆罕默德身邊的將軍; 扎義德（英語：Zayd ibn Harithah），Zopir的兒子，被穆罕默德綁架和奴役; 帕米拉（英語：Zaynab bint Jahsh），Zopir的女兒，被穆罕默德綁架和奴役; Phanor，麥加的議員; 麥加部落; 穆罕默德的跟隨者
首演日期	1741年4月25日
首演地點	法國里爾
原語言	法國
主題	宗教狂熱
類型	悲劇

穆罕默德（法語：Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète，意為「狂熱即先知穆罕默德」）是法國哲學家、劇作家伏爾泰於1736年創作的五幕悲劇。1741年4月25日於里爾首映。該戲劇基於默罕默德謀殺批評者的生平^[1]，探討了宗教狂熱和為實現自身目的對他人的操縱。伏爾泰稱此劇是為了「反對虛假野蠻教派的創始人」^[2]。

主要內容

公元629年圍困麥加期間，默罕默德為了得到一位漂亮的女性俘虜帕米拉，利用宗教狂熱操縱帕米拉的心上人賽義德之子殺死了賽義德。在發現默罕默德邪惡的欺騙後，帕米拉不再相信默罕默德的神而自殺。

參考

^ Voltaire, Mahomet the Prophet or Fanaticism: A Tragedy in Five Acts, trans. Robert L. Myers, ( New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964).
^ Voltaire Letter to Benedict XIV written in Paris on August 17, 1745 AD: "Your holiness will pardon the liberty taken by one of the lowest of the faithful, though a zealous admirer of virtue, of submitting to the head of the true religion this performance, written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect. To whom could I with more propriety inscribe a satire on the cruelty and errors of a false prophet, than to the vicar and representative of a God of truth and mercy? Your holiness will therefore give me leave to lay at your feet both the piece and the author of it, and humbly to request your protection of the one, and your benediction upon the other; in hopes of which, with the profoundest reverence, I kiss your sacred feet."

[Voltaire,_1964-1] Voltaire, Mahomet the Prophet or Fanaticism: A Tragedy in Five Acts, trans. Robert L. Myers, ( New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964).

[2] Voltaire Letter to Benedict XIV written in Paris on August 17, 1745 AD: "Your holiness will pardon the liberty taken by one of the lowest of the faithful, though a zealous admirer of virtue, of submitting to the head of the true religion this performance, written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect. To whom could I with more propriety inscribe a satire on the cruelty and errors of a false prophet, than to the vicar and representative of a God of truth and mercy? Your holiness will therefore give me leave to lay at your feet both the piece and the author of it, and humbly to request your protection of the one, and your benediction upon the other; in hopes of which, with the profoundest reverence, I kiss your sacred feet."

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