Developing a Muslim response to the western criticism of the Prophet Muhammad
The Western approaches towards the Prophethood of Mu╒ammad (peace be on him), from the early Middle Ages to the present time, have been critical and hostile. He was depicted as a demon or a Christian heretic or a madman. Those critics however changed their tone particularly with the downfall of...
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International Islamic University (IIU)
2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/27117/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/27117/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/27117/1/13_-_Fatimah_Abdullah_and_Che_Amnah_Bahari__Developing_a_Muslim_Response_%282%29.pdf |
| Summary: | The Western approaches towards the Prophethood of Mu╒ammad (peace be
on him), from the early Middle Ages to the present time, have been critical
and hostile. He was depicted as a demon or a Christian heretic or a madman.
Those critics however changed their tone particularly with the downfall of
the Ottoman Empire. This change of Western writers’ mode towards the
Prophet Mu╒ammad (peace be on him), however, was short lived. The
tradition of hurling a variety of criticisms and hostilities against the Prophet
(peace be on him) reemerged towards the end of the cold war and more
particularly after September 11, 2001. These criticisms reemerged in all
kinds and forms, to name a few, in academic writings, fiction, cartoons,
films and toy products. This article is an attempt to study the Western
criticisms hurled towards Mu╒ammad (peace be on him) discussing the
issues of his Prophethood, his position as the Messenger to mankind, the
second part of Shah┐dah and the finality of his Prophethood. These issues are
treated here in the context of developing a Muslim response in refuting the
Western criticisms, in the light of teachings of the Qur’┐n and the Sunnah
of the Prophet Mu╒ammad (peace be on him) along with the deliberations
of Islamic scholars. |
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