Orientalists’ humanly untaught prophet

  This paper has studied orientalists’ arguments for Prophet’s awareness of reading and writing. Their claim has been founded on two historical narrations. As narrated, the Prophet has written the words Mohammad ibn a’bdollah down at the time of Hodaibiyah and at the end of his life he ordered the people around him to bring pen and paper to write some advices for them.  Considering the Prophet’s being divinely learned, his ability to write and performing the ability, both before and after his prophecy, would make the problem clear. Key words: orientalism, humanly untaught, humanistic teaching, divine teaching, writing, reading.