Political History of Islam: Biography of the Prophet": A Book Review of Hossein Jafari

This study is an attempt to briefly review, though with acuity, the book titled “Political History of Islam” (Biography of the Prophet). The major goal is to incite the writer to pay adequate attention to his invaluable works and thus revise them in terms of content, literary, and formal errors. Thereby, this study can contribute to the process of reviewing and criticizing aimed at development and reform in science and knowledge. The present study focuses on the following issues: Content analysis, including contradictions in narration of historical facts, undue negligence in elaborating some essential or controversial issues in the history of Islam, etc; methodological analysis, including reliability of Sunni traditions and narratives on significant events of the Islamic history, etc; literary as well as morphological analysis; editing analysis which comprises the most urgent necessity in this book resulting from the high frequency of errors of this type which may in certain parts of the book necessitate the overall revision or rewriting. In all, while this study enumerates some editing rules, it provides the readers with the problematic areas which need to be taken into consideration. While absolute accuracy is not claimed, the intention is to provide the statements closest to the true value, hopefully.