sīra in A Sentence

    1

    In later periods, however, works of Sīra became more prominent.

    0
    2

    which is now considered to be only a subset of Sīra.

    0
    3

    At later periods, certain type of stories included in Sīra developed into their own separate genres.

    0
    4

    Early works of Sīra consist of multiple historical reports, or akhbār, and each report is called a khabar.

    0
    5

    During the early centuries of Islam, the Sīra literature was taken less seriously compared to the hadiths.

    0
    6

    The Sīra literature includes a variety of heterogeneous materials, containing mainly stories of military expeditions undertaken by Muhammad and his companions.

    0
    7

    However, some Sīra reports were written using an imprecise form of isnād, or what modern historians call the"collective isnād" or"combined reports.

    0
    8

    More recently, western historical criticism and debate concerning Sīra have elicited a defensive attitude from some Muslims who wrote apologetic literature defending its content.

    0
    9

    A person's Sīra is that person's journey through life, or biography, encompassing their birth, events in their life, manners and characteristics, and their death.

    0
    10

    In the Arabiclanguage the word Sīra or Sīrat(Arabic: سيرة‎) comes from the verb sāra(Presenttense: yasīru), which means to travel or to be on a journey.

    0
    11

    In the Arabic language the word Sīra or Sīrat(Arabic: سيرة‎) comes from the verb sāra(Present tense: yasīru), which means to travel or to be on a journey.

    0
    12

    The following is a list of some of the early Hadith collectors who specialized in collecting and compiling Sīra and maghāzī reports: ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr d.

    0
    13

    The Sīra also includes a number of written documents, such as political treaties(e.g., TreatyofHudaybiyyah or ConstitutionofMedina), military enlistments, assignments of officials, letters to foreign rulers, and so forth.

    0
    14

    Some works of Sīra also positioned the story of Muhammad as part of a narrative that includes stories of earlier prophets, Persian Kings, pre-Islamic Arab tribes, and the Rashidun.

    0
    15

    In the first two centuries of Islamic history, Sīra was more commonly known as maghāzī(literally, stories of military expeditions), which is now considered to be only a subset of Sīra.

    0
    16

    The Sīra also includes a number of written documents, such as political treaties(e.g., Treaty of Hudaybiyyah or Constitution of Medina), military enlistments, assignments of officials, letters to foreign rulers, and so forth.

    0
    17

    Some parts or genres of Sīra, namely those dealing with miracles, are not fit as sources for scientific historiographical information about Muhammad, except for showing the beliefs and doctrines of his community.

    0
    18

    According to Wim Raven, it is often noted that a coherent image of Muhammad cannot be formed from the literature of Sīra, whose authenticity and factual value have been questioned on a number of different grounds.

    0
    19

    Since many Sīra reports also contain isnād information and some of the Sīra compilers(akhbārīs) were themselves practicing jurists and hadīth transmitters(muḥaddiths), it was possible to apply the same methods of hadīth criticism to the Sīra reports.

    0


Related Words

vasoactive in a sentencenattokinase in a sentencenanhai in a sentencedecoys in a sentencehilary in a sentencegoblet in a sentenceinsulin in a sentenceicom in a sentencewoodford in a sentencemartis in a sentencemar-vell in a sentenceheffernan in a sentencelegibility in a sentencewho're in a sentencescoffed in a sentenceswtich in a sentencehellenic in a sentenceitem in a sentenceminiatures in a sentenceeet in a sentence