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>Napoleon made the Prophet into something of a role model, seeing himself as a new conqueror and legislator walking in Muhammad’s footsteps. During the opening stages of his campaign he relentlessly asserted himself as a defender of Islam and Egyptian people to bolster his legitimacy. He dressed in Egyptian costume, funded and celebrated the birth of prophet Muhammad.
>Bonaparte believed Muhammad was a model statesman and conqueror, he knows how to motivate his troops and, as a result, was a far more successful conqueror than was Napoleon. Napoleon believed that Muhammad promised virgins in heaven for his troops, but it was in order to motivate them, and he was right to do so - his military successes proved it. He also decried the sanguinary doctrinal wars of early Christianity, with squabbles over the nature of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and Muhammad's preaching cleared that. He even ready to excuse, even to praise polygamy. Why did Muhammad allow polygamy? First, explains Napoleon, it had always been a common practice in the Orient, Muhammad actually reduced it by allowing each man a maximum of four wives. Moreover, he believed that polygamy was a mean to combat racism:
>He also admired medieval Arabic sciences, and he believed Muhammad played a part in cultivating it. He contrasted urban Middle Eastern traditions of civilization with the traditions of the pastoral nomads of the Asian steppe and deserts, who, he said, constantly overthrew settled empires. The former were "enemies of the sciences and the arts," he said, "but this reproach cannot be launched at the Arabs, or at Muhammad". He continued "...Chemistry, distillation, sundials, clocks, our contemporary numerals, are all inventions of the Arabs. Nothing is more elegant than their moral tales, their poetry is full of warmth. Muhammad commended above all the erudite and men who gave themselves to a life of meditation and who cultivated belles lettres.”
>Bonaparte believed Muhammad was a model statesman and conqueror, he knows how to motivate his troops and, as a result, was a far more successful conqueror than was Napoleon. Napoleon believed that Muhammad promised virgins in heaven for his troops, but it was in order to motivate them, and he was right to do so - his military successes proved it. He also decried the sanguinary doctrinal wars of early Christianity, with squabbles over the nature of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and Muhammad's preaching cleared that. He even ready to excuse, even to praise polygamy. Why did Muhammad allow polygamy? First, explains Napoleon, it had always been a common practice in the Orient, Muhammad actually reduced it by allowing each man a maximum of four wives. Moreover, he believed that polygamy was a mean to combat racism:
>He also admired medieval Arabic sciences, and he believed Muhammad played a part in cultivating it. He contrasted urban Middle Eastern traditions of civilization with the traditions of the pastoral nomads of the Asian steppe and deserts, who, he said, constantly overthrew settled empires. The former were "enemies of the sciences and the arts," he said, "but this reproach cannot be launched at the Arabs, or at Muhammad". He continued "...Chemistry, distillation, sundials, clocks, our contemporary numerals, are all inventions of the Arabs. Nothing is more elegant than their moral tales, their poetry is full of warmth. Muhammad commended above all the erudite and men who gave themselves to a life of meditation and who cultivated belles lettres.”
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