In The Name Of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most

Merciful

Preface

D. Abdullah Ibn Abdullah

Al Zayid

Deputy President

Islamic University

Verily, praise belongs to Allah. We give Thanks To Him, and we seek blessing and peace for His apostle, whom he had sent as mercy for the worlds.

Reconstruction of the Islamic history researches, to be in accordance with the Islamic apprehension of the movement of history from the viewpoint of historical interpretation by Muslim experts, is a matter of real importance and risk, because the Muslim researcher is not free that he can make his decissions and explain and evaluate randomly, rather he is completely restricted by canonical ordinances. And if it happens that this muslim researcher is well endowed with the ability of utilizing the methods used by the modernists in their Researches in the Islamic history, this will surely be an intellectual originality which will be the characteristics of the Islamic method of history interpretation.

The writer agrees with the author that the introducing of the suggestions and remarks concerning the re - formation of the Islamic history, throughout its successive stages and during a period of fourteen centuries, is a problem of great difficulty but the reconstruction of the first centuries of Islam is verily The Most Critical Because This Truly Represents The Stages of the ideal and comprehensive application of the Islamic teachings. All the accurate and inclusive conclusion and judgements that the researcher reaches depend entirely on how far that researcher is obliged to the Islamic methodology, in its general concept and in adhering to prescribed principles and rules as well as the perfect method, the correctness of the scientific sources and the righteousness of his intellectual grounds.

Much gratitude for Allah, may he be praised and glorified, who has made the opportunity attainable to Dr Akram Al - Omari to propose an original way of writing the history of the first centuries of Islam. He adorned his beneficial suggestion with a fruitful intellectual grounds through which he has asserted the fact that Islamic interpretation of historical events originally stemmed out of the Islamic comprehension of the universe, life and mankind. This apprehension was entirely founded on absolute faith in God, the Elevated, His angles, Books, Prophets. The Day of judgement, and in Allah’s fate (Qadar) for good or Evil. Then, Dr Akram Al - Omari focused on the theme of Islamic apprehension of the historical interpretation, clarifying what is meant by the concept of research in Islamic history in accordance with the modernists methodology and presenting the conclusions that he has reached in applying the rules of the Prophetic traditional criticism of the historical narrative. And this, by God, is trend of a real originality, Seriousness and objectiveness, and is worthy of every greatness and respect.

The study of the resources, on which the prophetic biography entirely