Prophet Muhammad was a Light from Heaven | Sir Thomas Carlyle

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a western writer appeared who, more than any others, surprise Muslim seerah (Description of Life of Prophet) writers in the modern period. He was Sir Thomas Carlyle, a British Scottish writer whose work excited a great deal of interest, first in Muslims of British India and later throughout …

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Only Enemies of Islam can Write Against Muhammad | Prof. Veccia Vaglieri

Laura Veccia Vaglieri (1893 – 1989) was an Italian orientalist. A pioneer of Arabic and Islamic studies in Italy. Veccia Vaglieri served as professor at the Naples Eastern University and was the author of books on the historical and institutional analysis of the Arab and Muslim world. Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri, is perhaps the greatest …

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Prophet Muhammad – A Rarest Genius of the World | Author John Davenport

A British Orientalist John Davenport (1789-1877) in his well-known work, ‘An Apology for Muḥammad and the Koran’, admits the honesty and sincerity behind Prophet Muḥammad’s claim of being a Prophet of Allah. With his humble and earnest endeavour, John Davenport tried to free the history of Prophet Muḥammad from false accusations and illiberal imputations and …

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Greatness of Muhammad’s Achievements is Amazing | Montgomerry Watt

William Montgomery Watt was a noted Orientalist and one of the key historians of Islam in the West. He made a general appraisal of the Prophet Muhammad’s personality and achievements. His views regarding the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) have had considerable impact on British students and writers of Islam. Watt’s academic approach to …

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Sincerity of Prophet Muhammad is Indisputable | Prof. Joseph Schacht

Schacht was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law whose ‘Origins of Mohammadan Jurisprudence’ (1950) is considered as an important work on the subject by a western scholar. He is the author of many articles in the various editions of …

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Mohammad Never Instigated Fighting & Bloodshed | Author Ruth Cranston

Ruth Cranston ( 1887 – 1956) was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects. Ruth Cranston wrote in his book ‘World Faith‘: “Mohammad never instigated fighting and bloodshed. Every battle he fought was in rebuttal. He fought in order to survive and he fought with the weapons and in fashion of his …

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Islam is Spiritual Energy and a Living Seed | Swedish Prof. Tor Andrae

Tor Andrae (1885-1947) was a Swedish scholar of comparative religion and bishop (1936 onwards). In his book ‘Mohammed, the Man and His Faith’, he remarked that the concept of the period of Enlightenment permitted a just estimate of Prophet Muḥammad’s (peace be upon him) personality. In their inexperienced fashion the thinkers of this period often …

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Islam is not a Religion of Force & Compulsion | Historian Godfrey Higgins

Godfrey Higgins was a British Orientalist, historian and a prominent advocate for social reform. He showed brave and sympathetic views towards Prophet Muḥammad (peace be upon him) and Islam by his contribution ’Apology for Muḥammad’, published in 1829. In his book Higgins tried to reject medieval European attacks on Islam and develop a more accurate …

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Muhammad gave Best Religion and Laws to Arabs | George Sale

George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist and one of courageous voices who produced first English translation of the holy Quran. He prefaced his work with a commentary including a short biography of the Prophet Muḥammad. He was also author of The General Dictionary, in ten volumes. George Sale accepts that Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) gave best religion …

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