For plato and reading history

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 8, 2007 at 06:10

I urge you not to believe me and I urge you to read and to challenge me, and this is how you can learn. You see history is grey and it is not black and white.

I also urge you to be more demanding of the Muslim sources and look for internal contradictions in the texts and also compare what you find with extant sources external to the tradition, be it Syriac Greek or Coptic, and then make up your mind.

Case in point is Meccan trade: where is the evidence? Internal to the tradition as well as external to the tradition but your fatal mistake was that you believed that there was such a character as Khadija and the big spin about Meccan trade which in actual fact was nothing but the exegesis of the 3Ulama of Surat Quraish in general and the word Ilaf in suart Quraish in particular and in this case this Quranic allusion no one had a clue what this sura really means or what the word Ilaf really means but this did not stop the 3Ulam from guessing.

Ibn Warraq is a good start

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