SEERAT & HISTORY – A PILLAR OF ISLAM, A CRITICAL STUDY

Abstract

Discipline of history has always a lot of reservations while dealing with religion in making of modern nation state. And when it comes to the history of Islam, this discipline finds itself with the same dilemma. It is an acclaimed fact that Muslim scholars have always been the claimants of being originator and patron of historiography.  Though there are certain limitations regarding the belief system of Islam which resulted into a range of factual complications while presenting the history of Muslims and Islam. Muslim historians have strong proclivity of sentimentalism towards Islamic history. This proclivity has always tended to make them rise above the factual grounds of domain of historiography. It is a very interesting topic to trace the real background of this proclivity of sentimentalism while seeing Islamic past. It suspects that this tendency is direct or indirect result of the decline in the Muslim world. After that, period of colonization has landed the Muslim world into a defensive-reactionary mode which ultimately resulted into Andalusia syndrome. Andalusia Syndrome is a term coined for that particular school who always long for the revival of that era when Muslims were ruling over the Iberian Peninsula (Muslim Spain).according to that school if Muslims has to revive themselves then it must revive the glorious era of Muslim Spain.