Our comprendrelecoran: Abd al-Malik, al-Masjid al-Aqsa and Syro-Arabic Christianity

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Apr 18, 2018 at 17:04

Our dear comprendrelecoran wrote

>The whole tradition is lier.

Agree. The Islamic Historical Tradition is the biggest literary fraud in the history of humanity

>No one word of al Tabari corresponds to something historic.

I would add that al-Tabari was not an Arab he was a very civilized Persian that must have been horrified by the Qur'an as a text! The truth is the Qur'an is a confused and confusing book. However, al-Tabari's exegesis is very fundamental in Islam because it is the earliest extant Tafsir of the Qur'an.

>This verse has been written in about 692 by the helpers of Abd al Malik.

That we don't know and remember that the Qur'an is (in the words of Peters) "A text with no context"

Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad. The Umayyads were local Arabs from the Syrian desert and Mesopotamia and more likely than not they were followers of Syro-Arabic non Trinitarian Christianity There was no Islam before the Abbasid revolution in 750CE

Did you ever ask yourself why did Mu'awyya establish his capital in Damascus and not in Mecca or Medina and why did he have not an Arabic but a Syriac name? and why would he have a cross following his name at the Ghadra baths? Could it be because he had nothing to do with al-Hijaz Mecca and Medina included? and why did Abd al-Malik build the first monument in Islam (al-Masjid al-Aqsa) in Jerusalem and not in Mecca or Medina? And why would he want to see Jerusalem the destination of pilgrimage in Islam and not Mecca?

Read Luxenberg's interpretations of al-Masjid al-Aqsa inscriptions! Very interesting

> The first trace of Mekka is dating 699.

Reference? The Islamic Historical Tradition is silent about Mecca until the Abbasid's revolution (see Hoyland Survey)

> there was only sand in Mekka.

There was only sand in Mecca for a very long time. google photos of Mecca in the past 100 years and a surprise will be waiting for you

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