Analysis of Historical Accounts Based on Personality, With an Emphasis on Siyyid Jaʿfar Murtiżā’s Opinions in the Book Al-ṣaḥīḥ min Sīrat-al-nabī al-aʿẓam

Document Type : Promotional article

Authors

• hamid jalilian ¹
• Seyfali Zahedifar ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Bonab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bonab, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

10.22067/jhistory.2021.69534.1026

Abstract

Siyyid Jaʿfar Murtiżā (A.H. 1364-1441/A.D. 1945-2020) is one of the authors who write about Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) and his manners of living. He has analysed a multitude of historical accounts in the book Al-ṣaḥīḥ min Sīrat-al-nabī al-aʿẓam. One of his methods of analysing historical narrations has only received scant attention from other scholars of the life of Prophet. The method focuses on the personality and psychological characteristics of the person who has been talked about.
In the field of psychology, personality is defined as a set of physical, psycological, and behavioral characteristics distinguishing each person from others and enabling a prediction of each person’s behavior. ʿĀmilī has not analysed personality from a psyco-theoretical point of view, but has rather pointed out constant behavioral characteristics based on a set of historical accounts related to each person and as such evaluated the various accounts related to that person. The present study examines ʿĀmilī’s method of analysis by conducting research on Al-ṣaḥīḥ min Sīrat-al-nabī al-aʿẓam.

Keywords

• Sīra-pazhūhī
• Siyyid Jaʿfar Murtiżā ʿĀmilī
• Analysis of Historical Accounts
• Al-ṣaḥīḥ min Sīrat-al-nabī al-aʿẓam

Main Subjects

• History of Islam

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