Was Muhammad From Petra?

[Rival]

I believe that he was. The earliest Mosques face Petra and the Quranic geography seems to suggest Petra, among many other things.

This is a good video on the subject:

What do you think?

 

[Augustus]

It's unlikely, many of the earliest Islamic inscriptions can be found in the vicinity of Mecca and Taif.

 

[Rival]

It's unlikely, many of the earliest Islamic inscriptions can be found in the vicinity of Mecca and Taif.

Do they mentioned Muhammad?

 

[Augustus]

Do they mentioned Muhammad?

No. That only starts happening late 7th/early 8th C. Same with the word Muslim.

 

[YmirGF]

I believe that he was. The earliest Mosques face Petra and the Quranic geography seems to suggest Petra, among many other things.

This is a good video on the subject:

What do you think?

Nope. He came from Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib and Aminah bint Wahb


Jus' tryin' to be helpful, as ususal...

 

[Milton Platt]

I believe that he was. The earliest Mosques face Petra and the Quranic geography seems to suggest Petra, among many other things.

This is a good video on the subject:

What do you think?

He lost me when he mentioned "quaranic" evidence.

 

[Augustus]

I believe that he was. The earliest Mosques face Petra and the Quranic geography seems to suggest Petra, among many other things.

Might be of interest:

Although Muhammad’s religious movement may perhaps have originated somewhere in the Ḥijāz, it seems clear that the western coast of Arabia was not originally its holy land. Jerusalem, and not Mecca and Medina, appears to have stood at the center of early Islam’s sacred map, which is only to be expected if Islam began, as seems likely, as an eschatological faith grounded in a shared Abrahamic identity. Only as Islam progressively transformed itself over the course of the seventh century from an inter-confessional Abrahamic eschatological movement into the distinctively Arab faith of an empire defined by Muhammad’s unique prophetic message did its sacred geography change accordingly. During this period, the Ḥijāzī cities of Mecca and Medina gradually emerged at the center of a new sacred geography more suited to the sectarian, Arabian faith of classical Islam. This struggle to redefine the Islamic holy land reached its climax in the events of the
Second Civil War, a conflict that seems to have been partly grounded in competing ideas of sacred geography and whose outcome appears to have largely settled the matter in favor of the Ḥijāz. (Death of a Prophet - S Shoemaker)

 

[Rival]

He lost me when he mentioned "quaranic" evidence.

What do you mean? He is just trying to use the Quran to figure out where the Quran came from. I see no problem with that.

 

[Milton Platt]

What do you mean? He is just trying to use the Quran to figure out where the Quran came from. I see no problem with that.

Oh, I misinterpreted his statement. It was getting late.....