Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

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in Surah An-Najm, Satan cast upon his tongue: 'These are the high-flying cranes and their intercession is to be hoped for.

Williams, Rebecca, Sira, Modern English, in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 vols. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Pola yang demikian menjadi satu nilai tambah bagi pembaca dalam memahami bagaimana konteks sejarah yang menyelimuti suatu ayat sehingga kemudian ia diturunkan. Sebagaimana judulnya, buku ini mengacu pada kitab paling klasik tentang sejarah hidup Muhammad yang ditulis pada abad ke-8 hingga abad ke-9 Masehi. In accordance with this age-old practice, Muhammad would take with him provisions and consecrate a certain number of nights to the worship of God.

Buku ini juga memiliki kekhususan dalam hal penyebutan detail nama orang yang masuk dalam ruang sejarah Muhammad. This article questions the domination of the prophethood of Muhammad in the narrative of the seventh century of the Arabian Peninsula presented by both Muslim and Western scholars.

His reading continued to enjoy popularity for at least a century within Kufa, Iraq, the place of origin for much of the Ḥanafī madhhab’s jurisprudential corpus. After the Prophet Muhammad, the most contested figure in Islamic history would be his son-in-law, ʿAli b. The change of language from Arabic to English distills the art of writing into its sedimentary parts, and filters authors through translators’ technical abilities. Hal itu sekaligus menjadi basis dari salah satu bukunya yang berjudul A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century.This article makes several propositions as to what a coherent methodological approach to such traditions entails. The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art, Quinta Essentia, Cambridge, 1996. However, Lings turns this notion into a skewed elitism which characterizes the massive majority of people as blind (LXXXI, 329, 3): “Degrees of superiority are also implied by the Revelation in its mention of the heart. Di tengah sekian banyak karya tentang sîrah-nya, dan di antara kealpaan sebuah generasi akan perjalanan sucinya, buku yang diwariskan Lings ini boleh jadi memiliki kekhasankekhasan yang tak dimiliki karya lain. By highlighting his unique and influential contributions to the Islamic scholarly tradition, this study will hopefully serve as a step toward recharting Andalusī intellectual history by connecting the earliest expressions of mystical thought of Ibn Masarra (d.

The immediate result of these visions was that solitude became dear to him, and he would go for spiritual retreats to a cave in Mount Hirā’ not far from the outskirts of Mecca. The seerah of the Prophet ﷺ is its own genre of literature: a realm of study with principles, codification, and systems. I provide a concise overview of the foundational sources of Islamic knowledge followed by an overview of women’s engagement therein. He raised his eyes heavenwards and there was his visitant, still recognizable but now clearly an Angel, filling the whole horizon, and again he said: “O Muhammad, thou art the Messenger of God, and I am Gabriel. Kemudian tahun 1955, dia bekerja sebagai asisten Penjaga Naskah-naskah dan Buku-buku Ketimuran pada British Museum.Mungkin ini sekelumit gambaran perasaan Muhammad ketika mendapati generasinya justru lebih paham kisah hidup penyanyi yang ngetop gara-gara Youtube, heroisme Clark Kent dan Naruto Uzumaki, serta “pahlawan” imajiner yang lain dibanding kemuliaan sejarah kerasulannya. Tahun 1973, Lings merangkap kerja di British Library yang memfokuskan perhatiannya terhadap kaligrafi Quran. The example the Prophet set through his life has become a pattern book of good manners for the entire Muslim world. This makes Lings’ work, originally written in English for an English-speaking audience, especially attractive and more so for those who enjoy a high literary style.