LOOKING FOR 7TH CENTURY ISLAM (before 690 AD)

Dr Jay Smith from PfanderFilms reporting:

LOOKING FOR 7TH CENTURY ISLAM (before 690 AD) 

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For 25 years now I have questioned the historicity of Islam in the 7th century (i.e. prior to 691 AD). The reason? Because everything we know about Muhammad, who he was (the Sira), what he said (the Hadith), and where he lived (Mecca) has come from the Islamic Traditions which were initially compiled in the 9th and 10th centuries, a good 200-300 years too late! In fact, the first we hear about this man, Muhammad, from Arab sources; or that he was a Muslim, who was given a Qur'an, and that he created a religion called Islam, is not until the reign of Abd al-Malik who reigned from 685 - 705 AD. And his city Mecca doesn't get a mention until 741 AD, which is over 100 years after he died! Yet, every time I have dared to questioned whether we should trust these late Islamic sources I have been called a 'revisionist', an 'orientalist', an 'Islamophobe', or 'a hate preacher', and told to just 'shut up', because I was only arguing from silence. And therein is the problem. I was arguing from silence, which is one of the weakest arguments to support historically, because I had nothing tangible to support my case. Therefore, the historical solution is to move away from these late 9th - 10th century sources and go to the century when all these events took place, to the 7th century itself. Which is what I've now decided to do.

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