Shaban bukhari biography of christopher

What did the next three caliphs do? where did they conquer?

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Author’s Introduction

A few years ago I was involved in a debate on the radio with a prominent British historian who had recently written a sensationalist book on the origins of Islam. He claimed, in a distinctly haughty tone not uncommon among academics, that praying five times a day was not originally part of the Prophet’s message but was, in fact, imported into early Islam by Zoroastrian converts as an imitation of their own Zoroastrian five-times daily prayer.Along with many other Western scholars, he argued that, since Muslim sources like the Sira and Hadith collections consisted of material compiled at earliest a few decades after the events they described, they could not be relied on as reliable historical sources for the life of the Prophet ﷺor Islam’s beginning. Moreover, they were compiled by Muslims who had every interest in shoring up the claims of their religion.

But the evidence that this scholar relied on when making his claim about the ‘true’
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“The Shahi Imamate frequently assaults the Indian mind for political purposes. Muslim groups outside Old Delhi detest this Mughal era relic. Political parties will get unprecedented support if they call for an end to the biological imamate. … Syed Shaban Bukhari, who studies a meaningful subject like social work at Amity University, was born in India’s liberty; a conscientious act by him to renounce the imamate could herald a golden age of Islam.” – Tufail Ahmad
Syed Ahmed Bukhari has anointed his son to succeed him as the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, despite the Delhi High Court asserting that he has no legal right to do so. To assume this hereditary role, the only qualification needed is nutfa, or spermatozoon. In biology, nutfa plays a grundläggande role in reproducing the next generation of species. For humans, it also shapes history and politics, causes successions and assassinations. In history, it has been a vehicle for transfer of power from kin
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In 2009 I wrote two essays concerning the issue of plagiarism that Mr. Imran Shahid Bhinder had raised concerning Prof. Gopi Chand Narang’s book Sakhtiyat, Pas-i-Sakhtiyat Aur Mashriqi Shi’riyat (“Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Eastern Poetics”), for which Prof. Narang had received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1995. Both appeared at Outlookindia.com, the first, ‘Plagiarize and Prosper,’ in July, and the second, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes,’ in August. While Prof. Narang did not respond personally in public, either to Bhinder’s detailed analyses or to my much shorter essays, a young Urdu academic, Dr. Maula Bakhsh of Delhi took up his defense, and published in response a long diatribe against me and my motives, available in the ‘Comments’ section to my second essay.
I didn’t respond. I don’t like to get into arguments with those who comment on my essays, and usually respond only to thank or clarify if an err