RE: possible origins of islam (higher criticism scholars/ history nuts welcome)
July 20, 2015 at 5:16 am
(June 25, 2015 at 12:33 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote:Quote:I've been mulling over a theory lately, could it be that Islam has it's origins what would now be considered Syria/Lebanon?
Didn't Tom Holland write an entire book on this very subject? If I remember rightly, In The Shadow of the Sword is the book that discusses this. Also, you can watch a documentary featuring him, Islam - The Untold Story, by visiting the below link.
https://vimeo.com/79051482
(in the description of the video you can find links to a talk he did about the documentary)
I've watched Islam - The Untold Story, I do recall them mentioning Jordan, but not Syria or Lebanon.
I may very well have to check out the book you have mentioned. I was unaware that Lebanon and Syria were being taken seriously by scholars in their quest for a historical Muhammad. I think the clues will lie in the records from that era, if they haven't been destroyed by some pious twat centuries ago. I do hope that there's a Nag Hammadi style library of proto-Islamic literature out there somewhere that mentions this very thing.
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words,
"Behold Plato's man!"
