Israa and Mi'raj in Oriental Studies Between skepticism and Proof

Abstract

The journey of Israa and Mi’raj is considered one of the most famous and greatest events recorded in the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). In addition to being a transformative spiritual experience, the journey to heaven is remembered as a source of laws governing Muslim prayer, and a source of literary and artistic expression for centuries.

From all of the foregoing, we come to the conclusion to proceed with the completion of this academic study, during which we proceeded to follow the descriptive-analytical approach, whether during the first section of it, which was concerned with clarifying the religious status of the city of Jerusalem in the early days of Islam from an Orientalist point of view, or in its second section, which was devoted to reviewing and analyzing of the viewpoints and opinions of the Orientalists about what they called (the night journey) of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).