Abstract
Much has been written about the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAAW ever
since the second or third generation of Muslims following the demise of
the Holy Prophet in 632 A.D. Classical biographical works on the Holy
Prophet Muhammad SAAW—often called the Sirah al-Nubuwwah or
simply Sirah—have been seen as central and essential to both the history
and historiography of Islam, and altogether an inextricable part of the
Muslim faith. For Muslims, the Sunnah (Prophetic tradition), wherein a
significant part of the Sirah resides, in fact occupies the second most
pertinent source of Truth after the Holy Quran. More specifically, the qaul
al-nabi (Prophetic sayings), contained in the huge compendium of the
ahadist (codified form of Prophetic tradition), provide a rich and diverse
way in which both Muslims and students of Islam could ‘reconnect’ with
the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAAW, and understand more
comprehensively the context and circumstances, which surround the early
rise of Islam in the 7th century. This paper therefore seeks to analyze
contemporary readings of the Sirah behind the rich, multiple
interpretations of the Quran and the Prophetic tradition. It attempts to
confront the problem of textuality, within the philosophical domain, and
answer the question of how contemporary readers of the Sirah could
contextualize the plentiful lessons based on its honorable worldview that
sprung directly from the sacred life and holy teachings of the Prophet
Muhammad SAAW.
Dicky Sofjan. (2020) Contemporary Reading of the Sirah: Textuality and Contextuality, AL-ILM Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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