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Critical Analysis of Urdu Sirah Writing in perspective of Rational Approach within Subcontinent

Abstract

Sirah writing is such a marvelous and comprehensive subject upon which a number of writers have worked. In sub-continent (Indo-Pak) a large number of scholars served hard for the evaluation and presentation of Islam. As it is obvious that western powers have ruled this region for almost one hundred years, so their civilization and thoughts have left profound impact upon the natives.

Some intellectuals among Muslims were deeply impressed by western thoughts and they tried to co-relate the both school of thoughts. Such scholars strived to adjudge Sirah on western parameters of rationalism. They would deny the incidents which have no rationale. They started to argue in such a way that was contrary to the predecessor Sirah writers. The founding fathers of this traditions were Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Molvi Chiragh Ali. Regarding the polygamy, and miracles of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). They presented such logics which were basically influenced by the western philosophy. This tendency continued gradually until Professor Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Pervez and Jaffer Shah Phulwarvi. So in Sub-continent a new diction of Sirah writing emerged which based upon purely on self-made rationalism instead of following the traditional method of Sirah writing.