Carl Brockelmann's Opinion about the Prophet's Conduct in the Book Entitled as History of Islamic Peoples and States
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of the History Department at Khārazmi University
2 PhD Candidate of the History of Islam at Isfahan University
10.22081/csa.2020.69349
Abstract
Like other topics of the history of Islam, the Prophet's life has been invariably noticed by Orientalists. Studying the Prophet's history with colonial, political, evangelistic, and often with negative and wrong presuppositions about Islam, the Qur'an, the Hadith and the prophet's conduct, they have approached this topic. The main research question is that what presuppositions about the Prophet's conduct have the German scholar Carl Brockelmann had in the first half of the 20th century in writing his book of History of Islamic Peoples and States? Having analyzed the content of this book, the researchers have focused on the negative and skeptic approaches adopted by orientalists which have become more complex and implicit by the pass of the time. Having a counterfactual view, Brockelmann has downgraded the Prophet's position and actions. Therefore, it is essential for Muslim historians to understand the views of Orientalists in order to use these sources more carefully and to take action to solve such problems.
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