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| |text=''''']''''' (''Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet'') aka "The Fanaticism, or ]" is a play in five acts written in 1736 by ] ] and ] ] with its debut performance at ] on 25 April ]. | |||
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| The play is a study of ] and self-serving ] based on the traditional biography of Muhammad, in which he orders the murder of his critics.<ref>Voltaire, Mahomet the Prophet or Fanaticism: A Tragedy in Five Acts, trans. Robert L. Myers, ( New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964)</ref> Voltaire described the play as "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".<ref>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."</ref> | |||
| Some writers have argued that the play uses the Islamic figure of ] to indict not only (and not even mainly) Islam but all monotheistic religions.<ref>François Busnel, "Voltaire, le retour," Lire (juillet 2004 / août 2004) http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=47034/idTC=3/idR=213/idG=8 ''Le fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophète is a charge against Islam and more widely against all monotheistic religions''</ref> | |||
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