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[truman !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.5963367]

Has anyone here actually read Mahomet?

What did you think?

[Anonymous No.5963370]

>>5963367
He didn't write anything.

Unless you are referring to the Quran and Hadith? They aren't that interesting.

[Anonymous No.5963380]

You're going to have to narrow it down from the millions of M. name variations.

[truman !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.5963384]

>>5963370

Mahomet is a play by Voltaire, which is what that French cartoon was based on.

[Anonymous No.5963391]

Sorry, but the quran is mostly a mystified account of the beginnings of the Arab empire. It was most likely written after the Arabian empire had been established, evidenced by the fact that when the Arabs invaded Jerusalem, they never mentioned anyone named Muhammed

[Anonymous No.5963415]

>>5963391
I really don't think thats true, the events in it are too weird and specific, also with hindsight it clearly tells a story which it was never meant to tell.

[Anonymous No.5963423]

>>5963391
>people actually believe this

[Anonymous No.5963444]

>>5963384
You really should have specified, hopefully more people catch on and this doesn't turn into another 300 reply

>>5963391
> mostly a mystified account of the beginnings of the Arab empire
Yes
>It was most likely written after the Arabian empire had been established
No, where the fuck did you come up with this? It was compiled and organized after Muhammads death, along with hadith, but it was not created after he died or after the arabian empire had been established.

[Anonymous No.5963462]

>>5963391

There is contemporary and near-contemporary documentary evidence from non-Muslim chroniclers that names Muhammad as a religious guide to the Arabs. See Hoyland's excellent book 'Seeing Islam as Others Saw It.'

Recent studies of early (7th century) Qur'anic manuscripts suggest that several early recensions of the text existed, and that the 'Uthmanic' version that became standard is textually the closest to a hypothetical 'Muhammadan' prototype - see Sadeghi & Bergmann 2010.

We don't have a lot of evidence from the early Islamic period, but what we do have at least confirms that there was a man named Muhammad who preached a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion and that the Qur'an dates to the middle 7th century.

[Anonymous No.5963483]

>>5963444
>No, where the fuck did you come up with this?

I didn't

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.5963491]

Realized fuck Charlie Hebdo

[truman !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.5963497]

>>5963491
cool name bro but that book was shit

[truman !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.5963502]

>>5963444
>You really should have specified
plebes gonna plebe

[Anonymous No.5963507]

>>5963483
How does that in any way prove it was written after.

Compiling is not writing.

[Anonymous No.5963936]

>>5963491
What? Care to elaborate?