Sean Anthony - The Historical Muhammad

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  @stevenv6463 · 3 years ago

  Thanks for this.

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• AZ

  @azmainnisak5977 · 3 years ago

  Fantastic talk! Never heard the bede story before.

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• SI

  @simoncoss3321 · 1 month ago (edited)

  The account in the British Museum is known as The Account of 637'.  It describes a murdering warlord with no mention of a prophet or a new religion.  Thomas the Presbyter also records the name Mohammad also as a warlord, but no mention of a propbet or new religion.  He also gets his history wrong in a way that suggests a later interpolation.  They are both attestation that mhmd did exist as a name at that time, but neither are evidence of a new religion or a prophet.

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  @F.Abraham-vg4gb · 5 months ago

  The nisba (patronymic) of Tayy is aṭ-Ṭāʾī (ٱلطَّائِي)

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  @armanrozika · 2 years ago

  "all historical method is probabilistic" exactly, this is what i believe as well, even hadith is probabilistic

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  @JohnnieWalkerGreen · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdaxAXEdx04&amp;t=5038">1:23:58</a> --- Great answer regarding Hadith...

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  @A.--. · 4 years ago

  The story could have gone to Europe from bin Nawfal or by Jews sometime during the 23yrs of Prophets life?

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  @yinoveryang4246 · 2 months ago (edited)

  It&apos;s worth asking why so many people go to such lengths to find even the thinnest thread of evidence that Islam wasn&apos;t invented from small fragments – well after the incidents supposedly happened. That question alone is worth thinking through.<br>Take the name &quot;Mohammed&quot; itself: it doesn&apos;t turn up in any record until roughly 60 years after his supposed death. Any argument for earlier references rests entirely on the assumption that similar-sounding names must refer to him — like Muʿāwiya, who is agreed to have existed on the record, but whose name is phonetically different.<br>Any objectively minded person, one not already committed to believing, has to notice the size of that gap. What&apos;s genuinely depressing is seeing Westerners, those not brought up within Islamic reasoning, manage to talk themselves into this. Its as if some people don&apos;t believe in the value of truth as a concept, itself

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  @TheEnd-um7yd · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdaxAXEdx04&amp;t=1333">22:13</a>

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  @A.--. · 4 years ago

  Bede copied the use of AD and made it popular.

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  @winale2nd · 1 year ago

  Bila ada seorang manusia di tengah masyarakat yang menyembah berhala, sampai pada suatu kesadaran bahwa pencipta jagad raya adalah satu entitas yg disebut Tuhan dan hanya satu Tuhan yg patut disembah, bagaimanakah cara dia untuk menyampaikan eksistensi satu Tuhan yg patut disembah umat manusia? Cara menyampaikannya hanya lewat dua cara yang paling mungkin, yaitu secara verbal dan tulisan. Selain dari dua cara tsb adalah tdk mungkin. Bagaimana bila cara tulisan tidak mungkin karena tidak bisa baca tulis? Tentu dakwah dilakukan secara verbal. Apakah cara verbal tidak masuk akal? Tentu saja masuk akal. Lalu pertanyaan pentingnya adalah, mengapa setiap nabi diragukan manakala &nbsp;berdakwah secara lisan? <br><br>Seseorang mendapat wahyu, atau inspirasi dari mimpi, atau pikiran2 atau ide baru tentang pencipta alam semesta dari bisikan, apakah hal ini bukan realitas yang bisa dialami manusia? Fakta historis hingga kini membuktikan banyak orang mengalami mimpi, atau mendapat inspirasi dari renungan dan olah pikir. <br><br>Pengalaman spiritualitas manusia dari abad ke abad memiliki persamaan sebab manusia, apapun etnis, ras, suku bangsa dan budayanya yg berbeda, semua memiliki fitrah yang sama di atas muka bumi yang sama. Oleh sebab itu bila ada persamaan dan kemiripan sejarah hal tersebut wajar saja.

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  @judithneisse3990 · 2 years ago

  The comparison with Isaiah is wrong. The verb in Hebrew means to call to, to proclaim and not to read.

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