What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[Anomalocaris]

One wonders whether inshallah is the direct menifestation of preservation of a certain brutal fatalism that might have prevailed amongst the pre-Islamic Bedouin society with their marginal wondering existence and internecine tribal warfare. This would make it a different thing from Calvinism, which is a Christian theologically derived thing with tenuous connection to pre-Christian social and moral norms.

I agree that conceptually they're probably disparate, each with a unique origin.

I also think that the harshness of the desert probably did impose a harsh sociocultural outlook, including the idea thattaking care of someone who appears doomed might be a frivolous waste of the clan's limited resources. Whether that morphed into inshallah or not is beyond my reckoning.

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I think the ideals of islam has hewed close to the ethics of patriarchical tribal mob living strained and marginal existences in hostile land, and permanently engaged in vicious internecine conflicts. When stressed, it falls back to the principle that freedom of thought and experimentation that does not contribute to social control and to prevailing in internecine conflicts is an unaffordable luxury. This may be part of the reason why bulk of societies under its sway, when confronted with the superiority of modernity, has adopted so poorly, one might say uniquely poorly, to modernity in commerce, industry, politics, and technology.