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53. What can we know about the life of the Prophet Muhammad?, with Sean Anthony

Byzantium & Friends

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What Is the Original Arabian Context of the Proon?

We're talking about at least three jim chains of massive political importance in tims of caliphal dynasties, that is, the rulers of ther earlyslamic polity. And we know a good deal about a first century roman palestine, second temple judaism. Not as much as we would like, but a decent amount. We know nothing about the arabia of the prophet mohammed, virtually, especially about mecca. Mecca doesn't appear on any historical record before the life of the prophetmohammed a. Right now there's a lot of debates over what te what the people who lived there believed, what their religious practices were.

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