Perceptions of Islam in European Writings Islam to the birth of the

to the birth of the Prophet Muhammad

is either due to qiyas (analogical reasoning) or because of its unanimous agreement on that particular issue

Includes the commentary of Shaykh Muhammad Ahsan al-Siddiqi al-Nanotwi and Ustadh Habib al-Rahman Deobandi

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Perceptions of Islam in European Writings Islam to the birth of theThis study contributes significantly to the dialogue between Islam and the West; a field which has tended to be dominated by mainly non Muslim writers. Primarily concerned with an intellectual history of Western; mainly English and French; writers; responses to Islam from about 1787 to the 1890s; the author uses both European and Islamic source materials in his study. His thorough evaluation of writers including Toderini; Boulainvillier; Sylvestre de