ENGLISH 3 The Style Of Seerah Nigari

As Islamic Historiography And The Hostile & Biased Attitudes of Western Thinkers And Orientalists Regarding Seerah A Critical Analysis of Orientalist’s Books

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Seerah Nigari is considered one of the important initial patterns and styles of Muslim‘s historiography in early Islamic era and the several Muslim Historians worked on Seerah. Countless biographers wrote books on the life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) who was sent as the last Prophet to mankind by Allah Almighty. It was due to the love and belief that companions of the Holy Prophet put up their best efforts to save each and every word and act of prophet’s life. Therefore, Muslim historians were writing biographies with the spirit of faith, according to which preserving every characteristic of the Prophet was the key to their perfection as Muslims. Islam emerged as a powerful religion of the world in very short time. Unlike the Muslim historians, the Orientalists, on the other hand, have been propagandizing to weaken Islam through slanders in addition to targeting the weak and ignorant ones through hidden and open ways using different platforms available to them. The basic agenda behind such actions is to targeting the religion of Islam and the person of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in order to strengthen Christianity. This attitude is painful for the Muslims. This paper is an attempt to highlight the term Serat Nigari and the nature of the falsification of the prejudice and antagonistic attitude regarding Islam.