Muhammad in the Medina period

Submitted by Prashant, Apr 24, 2017 at 04:32

Dear Dr Pipes, Is it possible that Muhammad in the Medina period was just practicing Taquiyya and Islam of the Medina period was not fundamentally different from the the Islam of the subsequent Mecca period. Perhaps Muhammad laid the foundation of Taquiyya during the Medina period.

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