Jews in the Hijaz and the biggest literary fraud in the history of mankind

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 12, 2009 at 19:34

Sam wrote

>Dhimmi No More,,
tthank you for your reply.
I am not a historian nor a scholar, so i would not be able to write much on this subject.

Thank you for your interest in such subject

>However, how about the jewish tribes which Mohammed fought with?

Well let me start again: to reach such conclusion we must prove that there was indeed such a person as the historical Muhmmad and that there were indeed Jewish tribes in the Hijaz prior to 632CE

The answer to this:

There is no evidence from extant sources be it coins or papyri or ostraca or epigraphy that such Jewish communities existed and if we turn to the Qur'an to reconsturct the life of Muhammad we will not be able to do so which means that we have to look for evidence in islamic sources external to the Qur'an but as i explained to you these souces are not histiroically reliable sources because they are very late sources and they are tendentious and they are onyl salvation history and not real history

>What area is it ? How about the Jewish merchants mentioned in Koran or Islamic books ?

There is no evidence that such communities ever existed which means that the Islamic historical tradition is the biggest literary fraud in the history of mankind

>Mohammed never travelled much distance from Mecca & Medina and he certainly met and dealt with Jewish people.

That is not true the Islamic tradition tells us that he travelled to Syria for trade

>So there has to be Jewish people present in those areas.

Right. But if you mean by this that the Qur'an is talking about those Jewish people in Syria then you are incorrect because the islamic tradition tellls us that the Qur'an talks about the jews in the Hijaz and not Syria

>If there were Jewish people, someone should be able to find some more details.

And this is my point and that the Jewish sources (Rabbinical sources) as well as the Greek and Syriac and Coptic sources are silent about such communities

>sam

I hope I helped

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