RE: Did Muhammad exist?
February 13, 2018 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 8:04 pm by Minimalist.)
Back to the subject of the OP.
Don't stand near any of our resident muslims. Heads might explode.
I think Gibson is a bit too quick to credit early islamic mythology but it is hard to argue with his map-based determination of the facing of early mosques.
A more interesting possibility are the Ghassanids, a southern Arabian tribe which emigrated to the Levant - around Petra not so coincidentally - and which converted to xtianity. As far as the Byzantines were concerned they were heretics but they needed their military assistance against the Persians. Religion only goes so far!
Don't stand near any of our resident muslims. Heads might explode.
I think Gibson is a bit too quick to credit early islamic mythology but it is hard to argue with his map-based determination of the facing of early mosques.
A more interesting possibility are the Ghassanids, a southern Arabian tribe which emigrated to the Levant - around Petra not so coincidentally - and which converted to xtianity. As far as the Byzantines were concerned they were heretics but they needed their military assistance against the Persians. Religion only goes so far!
