The Blessed Prophetic Biography... Between Quranic Constants and Scientific Methodological Variables

2025-11-09

 Bayt Al-Hikma Participates in Dar Al-Rasool Al-A'tham Conference 

The Head of the Historical Studies Department at Bayt Al-Hikma, Prof. Dr. Haider Qasim Mattar Al-Tamimi, participated in the Fourth International Scientific Conference of  Dar Al-Rasool Al-A'tham (PBUH), which is affiliated with the Intellectual and Cultural Affairs Department of the Holy Imam Al-Abbas Shrine. The conference  titled  ( The Blessed Prophetic Biography... Between Quranic Constants and Scientific Methodological Variables)was held in Karbala from November 7-9, 2025.

The conference aimed to derive intellectual and educational lessons from the honorable Prophetic Biography and to read the Quranic constants in light of modern methodologies, contributing to the consolidation of human and reformative values in Islamic thought. It witnessed wide participation from researchers and academics from within and outside Iraq, discussing various scientific titles that sought to present renewal visions in the study of the Prophetic Biography. These visions were represented in five main axes distributed across the conference sessions , which were  : Quranic directives in the documentation of the Prophetic biography in Islamic heritage , historical methodologies and Quranic constants among contemporaries in the Study of the Prophetic Biography ,
 linguistic and literary methodologies in the Quranic study of the Prophetic biography ,the utilization of the Holy Quran in orientalist writings on the Prophetic biography ,and the Quranic Prophetic Biography in Educational and Psychological Curricula (Concepts and Applications).
Global and Specialized Participation
Researchers and academics from various Arab and Islamic countries participated in the conference, including Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Morocco, in addition to researchers from Iraqi universities, institutions, and research centers.
Dr. Haider Qasim Al-Tamimi's participation was with his study titled: "(Quranic References in Biographical Literature... An Introduction to Orientalist Studies... William Muir's The Life of Mahommed as a Model)."
In this study, the researcher attempted to explore the critical analysis imposed by Orientalists on their studies, examine their methodologies, and analyze the relationship between the Holy Quran and narrations in the Biography from the perspective of Orientalists, using one of the foundational references as a model for the Orientalist output on this topic. The researcher expected this study to have a qualitative nature, as he relied on text analysis as a primary tool while simultaneously attempting to identify the different methodologies adopted by Orientalists in their study of the Holy Quran and its relationship to the narrations of the blessed Prophetic Biography.
Members of the advisory  team of the Historical Studies Department at Bayt Al-Hikma participated as well in the membership of the conference's scientific and preparatory committees, besides chairing one of its research sessions.