کوته‌فکری، یا محمد پیامبر

کوته‌فکری، یا محمد پیامبر (فرانسوی: Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète) یک نمایش‌نامه تراژدی نوشته فیلسوف سیاسی شهیر و فرانسوی، ولتر است. این نمایش‌نامه نخستین‌بار در بیست و پنجم آوریل ۱۷۴۱ در لیل بر روی صحنه رفت.

نمایش‌نامه کوته‌فکری بر اساس بیوگرافی محمد نوشته شده‌است و موضوع اصلی آن تعصب‌مذهبی و سواستفاده‌های محمد از قدرتش است و قتل منتقدان پیامبر به دستور شخصی او را تصویر می‌کشد.^[۱] خود ولتر این نمایش‌نامه را «مخالفتی با بنیان‌گذار آیین توحش و دروغین» توصیف کرده‌است.^[۲]

ترجمه به فارسی[ویرایش]

این نمایشنامه در سپتامبر 2021 با عنوان "تعصب گرایی یا محمد پیامبر" توسط آزاده سپهری ترجمه و منتشر شده است.

منابع[ویرایش]

↑ 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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