Modern Approaches to Sīrah Genre
Fethullah Gülen’s Contribution
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This book offers a comparative analysis of contemporary approaches to the sīrah genre (biography of Prophet Muhammad). It explores the connection and juxtaposition of the sīrah genre with Islamic systematic theology (kalām), particularly in the context of the emergence of Islamic modernism. It also highlights the inherent interconnectedness of the sīrah and kalām disciplines. The book presents a careful study of Fethullah Gülen’s reading and interpretation of the sīrah within the broader framework of modern debates, investigating his approach through the lens of the kalām discipline and the philosophy of sīrah. The author argues that reading the sīrah from the perspective of the kalām discipline, kalāmisation of sīrah, is a novel response to modern debates around the life of Prophet Muhammad. Kalāmisation of sīrah together with the notion of sīrah philosophy, represents a significant advancement in the field, providing new methodological and interpretative frameworks that are likely to define future trajectories of sīrah writings. Gülen’s contributions are both ground-breaking and forward-looking, offering novel ways to engage with and understand the sīrah for a contemporary audience. This book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in Islamic studies, theology, philosophy of religion, religious movements, and literature.
This book comparatively examines modern approaches towards the sīrah genre (biography of Prophet Muhammad). It explores the connection and juxtaposition of the sīrah genre with the Islamic systematic theology (kalām), particularly since the emergence of Islamic modernism. It sheds light on the interconnectedness of the sīrah and kalām disciplines as scholarship on sīrah and prophethood is inherently relevant. The book presents a careful study of the reading and interpretation of the sīrah genre as penned by Fethullah Gülen from a broad perspective of modern debates and investigates Gülen’s approach to sīrah based on kalām discipline and philosophy of sīrah. The author argues that reading sīrah from the perspective of the kalām discipline (kalāmisation of sīrah) is a novel response to modern debates around the life of Prophet Muhammad. Kalāmisation of sīrah together with the notion of sīrah philosophy is a significant contribution to sīrah writings in terms of methodology and approach and it is likely to define future trajectories of sīrah writings. Gülen’s contribution is ground-breaking and innovative, paving the way for new perspectives to read and interpret sīrah in a modern world for a contemporary audience. This book is of interest to scholars and researchers of Islamic studies, religion, religious movements, philosophy of religion, theology and literature.
Brings together modern approaches to the sīrah genre in Islamic scholarship and its future methodology and approach trajectories Only book to cover the relationship between Islamic systematic theology and the sīrah genre (kalāmisation of sīrah) in debates around Prophet Muhammad’s life Deals with Fethullah Gülen’s scholarly aspects, particularly his admiration and understanding of Prophet Muhammad’s life
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Suleyman Sertkaya
Themen in »Modern Approaches to Sīrah Genre«
Sīrah genre life and biography of Prophet Muhammad Prophethood/prophetology Fethullah Gülen Infallibility (ismat al-anbiya) Prophetic intellect (fatanah) Islamic systematic theology (kalām) Modernists/Islamic modernism sīrah genre and Islamic systematic theology (kalām) interconnectedness of sīrah and kalām disciplines Gülen’s approach to sīrah