The Position of the American Orientalist Juan Cole on the Sirah Writer ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr (d. circa 94 AH / 716 CE): A Critical Study

Abstract

Orientalists were interested in studying the prophetic biography and its books, so Erwa Ibn al-Zubayr Ibn Al-Awwam(D .about 94 Ah/716 ad), one of the writers of the prophetic biography, who took it upon himself to write it down to his elders who lived through those events, and the authors of the biography preserved for us, and the significance of that, when the American Orientalist (Cole Brothers) came, he studied the prophetic biography with what he saw, and began to criticize (Erwa), as he was unsuccessful in this, he missed a lot of things, so I criticized what I see.