Why can’t we entirely trust the traditional Islamic account of the conquests?
Period: 602-695
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A book I would like to suggest is “The war of the three gods Romans Persians and the rise of islam” which talks about the Early Middle Ages. It is available on Audible and a small part of he book is on Google books
Hello,
the 8th century muslim sources justify the absence of written history by claiming the illiteracy of the arabs during the time of The Prophet and that they were memorizing everything they hear, that’s an awful excuse, The first word of the quran is (إقرأ) that means (read) and not (recite) you can look it up.
The quran mentioned (القرطاس) and in plural (القراطيس) many times, it means papyrus rolls, he mentioned also (الرق) which is a leather roll to write on, and the mekkan had tons of them because of the religious sacrifices, also in the hadith sources there are many evidences that the prophet knew how to write and read and that he had his own Quran written by his right hand.
before the revelation the prophet was a merchant traveler between countries, how can a illiterate manage to sold and buy and ship merchandise without writing and reading contracts, specially if we know that he was working for Khadija, who he married after.
Christians and jews were livinf in Mekka and Medina and Najran and Yeman, they had bibles and torahs and talmuds aand midrashs (places for study), why do later muslims sources claim otherwise and wahts their objectif ?
it does not make sense, such big events like what happen during the life of the prophet Mohammed were not written until centuries later (ibn ishak)
wasn’t Mekka an international trading pole ? didn’t romans and persians heard about what was going on in the arabian peninsula ? why can’t we find objectif details about a man “claiming” to be a prophet in arabia ?