Molvi’s Comments (group member since Jan 27, 2017)

Molvi’s comments from the Islam group.

This is an important contribution and information about this book should be disseminated widely

These books will be very welcome additions to our Muslim school library. We will try to order them as soon as possible

Assalamau alaikum
I can help with this is you like
Wassalam
Ashraf Dockrat

I trust that you will edit and revise your book in this case

The List:

1. Siratul Mustafa by Maulana Idris Sahib Kandehlawi (Zam Zam Publishers and Madrasah Arabia Islamia) Translated by Mufti Muhammed Kadwa (Published January 2011) Abridged by Jamiatul Ulama KZN Talimi Board in one volume.

2. Prophet of Mercy by S. Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (Haji Arfeen Academy) Translated by Mohiuddin Ahmad

3. The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography by Dr. M Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti (Dar al-Fikr) Translated by Nancy Roberts

4. The life of the prophet Muhammad (highlights and lessons)
Dr Mustafa as-Sibaa'ie
5. Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) by Safi-ur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri


6. The Noble Life of the Prophet (Peace be upon Him) by Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad As-Sallaabee (Darussalam) Translated by Faisal Shafeeq


7. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings (Inner Traditions International) (1983)

8. Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya
Book by Ibn Kathir

9. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari wrote the well-known work History of the Prophets and Kings, whose earlier books include the life of Muhammad, which cite Ibn Ishaq

10. Syed Sulaiman Nadvi wrote Muhammad The Ideal Prophet and Muhammad The Prophet Of Peace translated by Rauf Luther

11. Atlas on the Prophet’s Biography: Places, Nations, Landmarks by Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil (Darussalam)

12. The Life of Muhammad by Muhammad Husain Haykal

13. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad. ed. Jonathan Brockopp (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009)
14. Muhammad Rida wrote Muhammad Rasulallah.

15. The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad by Tariq Ramadan


16. The life and work of the prophet of Islam
Muhammad Hamidullah

17. Muhammad: Encyclopaedia of Seerah (Afzalur Rahman)

18. A day in the life of Muhammad: (A study in the prophet’s daily program)
Abd-al-Wahhab b. Nasir al-Turay
19. Muhammad the best of Creations: A glimpse of his blessed life
Sayed Muhammad ibn' Alawi al-Maliki al Hasani

20. Muhammad the perfect Man
Sayed Muhammad ibn' Alawi al-Maliki al Hasani

21. The life and teachings of Muhammad
Sayed Ameer Ali

22. A biography of the prophet of Islam
In light of the original sources An analytical study.
Dr Mahdi Rizqullah Ahmed
Translated by: Sayed Iqbal Zaheer


23. Revelation (the story of Muhammad
Meraj mohiuddin

24. Prophetic grace The quraanic merits of the prophet Muhammad
Shaykh Ahmed bin Ajiba


25. The unique qualities of the prophet and his community
Kasa'is Al Nabi wa ummatihi
Imam Yusuf Al Nabahani

26. A summary of the unique particulars of the beloved prophet Muhammad
Al khasa is as- sughra
Imam jalauddin as suyuti


27. Muhammad: Islam's first great general Richard A. Gabriel

28. A mercy to the universe
Saeed bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahatani

29. Life of Muhammad and the subject subsiary thereto
Sayed Ahmed khan Bahador

30. The sublime conduct of Rasulullah(saw)
Original: Mufti Muhammad Irshaad Ahmed Qasami
Translated: Abdurrahman ibn Hafiz Hussein Kolia

31. The exemplary role model Muhammed
Dr Recep Dogan

32. Muhammad the messenger of god

Kamal
The point that needs to be made is that "extremist" and "extremism" are relative concepts. I may be considered an extremist by someone who is very "liberal". People may even be "extemist' liberals. So lets not use these terms and create straw-men which we then break down without actually knowing exactly who we are referring to.

Kamal wrote: "Assalamu Alykum;
I have written a book and would like to know your feedback and opinion on the subject of the book. The title is: Islam: From Purism to Extremism of Spiritually Misled some Muslims
..."

What is the central theme of this book? I have seen the contents page and am trying to understand the underlying theme of the book

The best work on the sirah
If someone were to ask: What in your opinion is the best work on the sirah? There can be no doubt that as Muslims we can only reply by saying that it has to be the Qur’an. Undoubtedly the quran serves as the best sirah of the Prophet. And just as it is paradigmatic to speak of the Prophets live as the Qur’an, it is equally true to say that the Qur’an is the best sirah of the Prophet of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalllam. This also puts paid to the idea that a good sirah is a chronological account of the biography of the Nabi of Allah Ta’ala sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

Reading the Qur’an as a book of Sirah brings the Qur’an alive. It provides context and is a clarion call to recognize the place of revelation in the living and dynamic Muslim community then and by extension in our own time as well.

I am busy compiling a list and have made some selections.
Sirat al-Mustafah of Khandelvi is now available in a good translation and has also been abridged by a publisher in South Africa
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi's work on the Sirah has been published by Turath Publications and includes maps and other useful additions.
Shallabi's 3 vol. work is very good. Said Ramadan al-Buti's Fiqh al-Sira (trans. Nancy Roberts) is a masterful study. The list is growing quite fast; so watch this space...