How is Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed or by the religion he started?
See previous Ques.How is Jesus, Moses etc.,
Little by little the band of Believers grew. Higher ranking persons joined. But Muhammad’s relatives in Makkah were divided. One uncle, Abu Talib, father of Ali who stayed with him; [Ali will later claim and slay his way to succeed Muhammad] another uncle turned against him, and in typical Muhammad style, Muhammad that uncle “Father of Hell” a Surah modeled on the old Arabic invective poems). Later such reviled statements are to become a tool of fear and control for any dissenters. Those who followed him, however, were unimpressed by the boycott of his family and could not be suppressed. Nor did Muhammed’s followers win over the majority of the Makkans. Even after the family deaths in 619, when he family protected him, his position (of self-acclaimed prophet) was grim. He migrated to Abyssinia and counted on the Christian support against the pagans. But his position remained weak and he decided to concede to the Makkans their three chief goddesses as at least intercessors with himself to God. Soon, he revoked his concession and his departure from strict monotheism. A compromise was no longer possible with himself and several godheads, and death threats on his life surrounded him. He escaped the murderous attempts by seeking refuge in Madinah, 250 miles north, a town rent by hostile clashes between two tribes, Aws and Khazraj, and between these and three Jewish tribes. A compromise could only be brought by an outside arbiter. Envoys from the town approached Muhammad and he gladly obliged to intervene in 622. This was a final breach with his native city, Makkah. From this event Muslims date the beginning of their era. Henceforth Muhammad had secured his authority. He overcame difficulties at first by creating blood ties [with forced concubines] between the settlers, the Muhajirun and the natives, the Ansar, and he issued an ordinance which obliged everyone to protect the Muslims! Here began the “royalty” of a lineage and of unjust rule, so much despised in other future countries in Medieval centuries.
see Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed, etc. pt. 3
Thank you bDeau, your information supports all the research done on Muhammad for fourteen centuries. The scholars are with you on your knowledge. I had wished you to include your references. Mine are in the other questions beginning How is Jesus, Moses, parts 1 and 3.
See Question: How is Jesus, Moses, known by Muhammed or by the religion he started? (pt 1 & 3)
Works are every language, the subject is well documented by every major university in
the world by scholars in nearly every researchable language. The following books will lead to the full bibliography of reference works, which is so vast that even then only a
tentative list can be given here.
The Age of the Caliphs, History of the Muslim World, Spuler, Bertold, 1969; Weiner, Pub. Princeton.
Encyclopedia of Islam, 1936, 4 vols.
Handbuch der Religionswissenschaft, Mensching, Gustav, 1948, Berlin.
Spuler, Bertold, Der Verdere Orient in islamischer Zeit, Berne, 1952, (lists works pub. 1937-51)
Zambaur, Eduard von, Manuel de genalogie et de chronalogie pour l'histoire de l'Islam, Hanover 1927, 2 ed. 1955.
La vie de Mahomet, Dermenghem, Emile, Paris 1929; tr. by Arabella Yorke, The Life of Mahomet, London 1930, tr. by Resat Nuri, Muhammedin
How is Jesus, Moses, and other important prophets looked at by Muslims in reference to Prophet Muhammad?
In the question above began the first part of my reply giving the researched scholarly history of not only Muhammed, but of the entire locale in which he lived, beginning with the history of the Caliphs, using extensive nepotism, which evolved into a religious dogma, another story in itself to retain control. These notes found in The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, p. 32. Pub. London, England, 1961, Colin McEvedy, author.
mupet000...
... I do see a huge ammount of worthless text that I'm not going to read.
You are quite right. It is the ignorant who will not read. How else can they protect their cherished abominable ignorance?