穆罕默德 (戏剧)

穆罕默德（，意为“狂热即先知穆罕默德”）是法国哲学家、剧作家伏尔泰于1736年创作的五幕悲剧。1741年4月25日于里尔首映。该戏剧基于默罕默德谋杀批评者的生平Voltaire, Mahomet the Prophet or Fanaticism: A Tragedy in Five Acts, trans. Robert L. Myers, ( New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964).，探讨了宗教狂热和为实现自身目的对他人的操纵。伏尔泰称此剧是为了“反对虚假野蛮教派的创始人”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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公元629年围困麦加期间，默罕默德为了得到一位漂亮的女性俘虏帕米拉，利用宗教狂热操纵帕米拉的心上人赛义德之子杀死了赛义德。在发现默罕默德邪恶的欺骗后，帕米拉不再相信默罕默德的神而自杀。

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Category:对伊斯兰教的批评
Category:1741年作品
Category:伏尔泰