Videos

1. Did the Quran come from God?
   • Profile :-
     • Historian Tom Holland interview
       Historian Tom Holland Author, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword’.
   • Channel :- Moneer Cherie
   • Date Published :- 2017-Nov-29th
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2. Origins of Islam
   • Profile
     • Tom Holland Where did Islam come from? The story of how it came to be established across a vast empire stretching from the Atlantic to the frontiers of China is conventionally traced back to the charisma and inspiration of a single man: Muhammad. But his story was not written until 200 years later. Join historian Tom Holland who has received death threats for challenging the long-held origins of Islam.
   • Channel :- Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
   • Date Published :- 2017-Feb-17th
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In-depth

Did the Quran come from God?

1. Source
   • God or Culture
     • Persian and Roman in 7th Century
     • Has stories borrowed from Roman, Christian folk tales
     • Christian
       • Moses
       • Virgin Mary
     • Alexander the Great
   • Why it matters
     • If not from God, then one has to understand it in human terms
     • Historian of Antiquity
     • Seem Rigor
     • If not becoming a Muslim and dealing in Theology and not in History
2. Needs
   • The people of the time needed a backdrop of religion to bind together what was happening
   • Binding Philosophy
   • Anything that happens is seen as coming from God
   • Arabs said too themselves “What is going on“
   • The process the writing got shaped into religion
3. Christianity & Islam
   • Born out of same melting point
4. In the West
   • 1970 and 1980s