Islamic History

Birth of Islam
As we study the history of Islam in the context of world history the point that is forced to notice is that while the birth of Islam is unique phenomenon in the annals of mankind, yet its due importance has not been recognised in the history of the world. in the histories of the world written by western scholars only passing references have been made to the birth of Islam, and its proper significance vis a vis the history of mankind has not been appreciated. The position is that when in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the western powers became imperial powers they did not merely colonise Muslim lands, they colonised Muslim history as well. In order to project the superiority of the West the western scholars presented Islam as something medieval which was responsible for the backwardness of the Muslims. As a matter of fact the truth has been the other way round. When the Muslims owned Islam they rose to great heights; when they  wavered in their allegiance to Islam they fell to great depths. The Muslims came to grief during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries not because they owned Islam, but because they had not been true to Islam. Now that there has been once again a Muslim awakening, and the colonial imperial powers ave retired from the Muslim lands, it is necessary that the history of Islam as presented by the western scholars should be de-colonised, and liberated from the intellectual bondage of the west.