دور حاضر کی سیرت نگاری اور مغربی رحجانات۔۔۔۔۔۔۔تحقیقی جائزہ

Analytical Study of Sirah-Writings in Present Age and Western Trends

Abstract

The 19th century has great significance in western society because the trend of Seerah Writing became very favored whereas ideological span remained present between Islam and the West. It is obvious that every religious community showed keen interest in“The personality of Prophet Muhammad(SAW)” in every age. Orientalists are also accustomed to studying the Muslim divine literature. In the beginning of the 17th century, Orientalist Movement worked on a new scholastic strategy through the transmutation and exegesis of Islamic Literature. Their "Empirical Method of research", "Logicalness" and Scientific Experimental way of Analysis have generated doubts and reservations in all Islamic literature, especially in Seerah literature. A prolonged series of "Dante (1265-1321)", "Roger of Wendover (date of death 1236)", "Matthew Paris (1200-1259)", "Martin Luther (1483-1546)", "Ramond Lull (1232-1315)", "Simon Oakley (1678-1720)" has been lasting till the present age. And the Seerah Writing of William Muir (1819-1905), Mont Gomery Watt (1909-2006), Karen Armstrong (date of birth 1944), and Michael Cook (date of birth 1940) also emerged with new phraseology having much influence on a modern man about Seerah literature. In the 19th, century, the western trend of “Seerah writing”has been completely changed. Research methodology and Civilized manners in writing have been noted by the western scholar. As well as concealment of historical truth and distortion the historical events also became the cause of hatred between Islam and the West. There is a great need to reckon with the western Seerah writings in the present age. The question is how to bring actual and auspicious teachings of the "Holy Prophet (peace be upon him)" before the world and how it will be helpful to abolish abhorrence about Islam and The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him)?