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  1 - A Critical Review of Tarīkh -i Islam of Dr. Fayyāz
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  Tarikh -i Islam of late Dr. Ali Akbar Fayyāz (dead 1350 Š/ AD1971-2) is one of the earliest works on reviewing the history of Islamin modern times. It covers in a thin volume a long stretch of Islamichistory since initiation up to the end of Abbasids. The book de More

  Tarikh -i Islam of late Dr. Ali Akbar Fayyāz (dead 1350 Š/ AD1971-2) is one of the earliest works on reviewing the history of Islamin modern times. It covers in a thin volume a long stretch of Islamichistory since initiation up to the end of Abbasids. The book despite itsuseful positive points mentioned in publisher’s foreword raisescriticism on the chapters dealing with the time of the Prophet (PBUH)and the first four caliphs, which some of them are dealt with in thispaper from a historical and ideological point of view and each one isclassified according to its subject matter.The main incentive to this work was that the author has presentedan unjustifiable strict picture of the prophet, along quoting manyshaky accounts which present biased image of the life and deeds ofhim. So the present work opens with quoting one of these accounts(which in present author’s view) is “one of the harshest accountsquoted about the Prophet and his desciples. Manuscript profile