(August 14, 2016 at 5:44 pm)abaris Wrote: Again, look at the rivalry between Mekka and Mediana.
You don't know the first thing about being critical of your sources. Which basically means, don't believe them unless you have solid evidence of them to be true.
You know what one of the first lessons in history school is? You're presented with a text. There's no author, no date, no point of origin. Just the text. Your task is to find out when, why and by whom this text was written. And most importantly why. In my case it was one of the former GDR, which still existed at the time. It was an easy one, since it had many hints pointing to that origin. So I could take it from there, and knowing that the author had a communist agenda, it was also easy to not take it as gospel.
That's how you go about texts. You have to know who, why and when.
I don't think that two armies with tens of thousands of men face-off on a battlefield for over 7 days unless there is a good reason for them to be fighting. The Franks, under Charles, were there to defend their kingdom; the Muslim army was there to conquer it. It's that simple.
