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- Did the Quran come from God?
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- Historian Tom Holland interview
Historian Tom Holland Author, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword’.
- Historian Tom Holland interview
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- Origins of Islam
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- 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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Did the Quran come from God?
- 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
- God or Culture
- 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
- Christianity & Islam
- Born out of same melting point
- In the West
- 1970 and 1980s