Quote:The thing is that Islam had already spread throughout many regions of the world before the death of Muhammad and he was also well-known at the time.
I know this is hard for you, Rayaan, ( about as hard as it is for xtians to hear that their godboy never existed either ) but this is a story about power and the formation of empire. Muhammad, which is a title as well as a name, does not appear for 60 years after the beginnings of the conquest of the Arab empire. The peoples who were attacked never heard of the koran or islam or mohammed. They do record who was conquering them, calling them saracens or such.
The Byzantines and Persians bled each other white in battles in the late 6th century. The Arab tribes moved into the vacuum. There are coins minted by early Arab rulers which bear a cross. Spencer also spends a lot of time going through the hadiths and showing the political nature of those. They were used to inflate or deflate other power blocs.
Like xtianity in the 4th century the religion was a creation of powerful rulers who decided they needed a common religion to hold together a disparate empire.
The book is here.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7281809/R...i__epub%29
You'll need epub or mobi to read it although I understand that Caliber works as well.
