The celebration of Mawlid al-Nabawi through history: the jurisprudential foundations of a thousand-year-old tradition

Abstract

The cultural and cultural aspects of the celebration of Mawlid al-Nabawi, they can become an expression of the Muslim world, constituting expressions of impression by Omme. This testimony does not really seem to have a tendency to appear: on the premise that this celebration was not initiated by the Prophet himself and was not enacted by the sacred texts, the majority of Salafi Imams "Of heresy" (bid'a) and tirelessly multiply the calls to his boycott. This is an old argument for a desecration of the Mawlid al- Nabawi festival, we can not question the validity of this reasoning? Perhaps to say that the celebration of the Mawlid has its origins in the statement of the sacred texts of Islam, or would not, on the contrary, be something unjustly sacralized as pretending to its detractors? To try to bring a beginning of answer to this interrogation, the author will endeavor, at first, to trace the history of the celebration of the Mawlid in Islam (1). Before of bringing, in a second time, on the view of the geologists ormanians on the legitimacy of this religious night (2).