Islam: The Untold Story Page #2
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of her richest provinces,
crushed the Persian Empire,
and taken possession of
most of the Middle East.
A staggering achievement.
For most Muslims, a miracle.
Only God could have made it happen.
Bedouin Arabs,
they were the margin of history
during the Roman Empire,
that through such a people
the whole of North Africa and Spain
should be transformed
in just a few decades,
and a whole new civilisation
created within a century
from China to France.
This is historical fact.
And it all began, the story goes,
when a merchant named
Mohammed in a mountain cave,
heard something as terrifying as it
was awesome, the voice of an angel.
"Oh, Mohammed,
thou art the apostle of God."
God had spoken to the Arabs.
HE PRAYS:
THEY PRAY:
The message was as clear
as it was elemental.
There is only one God.
Mohammed is the prophet of God.
Islam is submission to God.
And it was this message
that gave them an empire.
Or was it?
No-one doubts the conquests
really took place,
but the question is,
was it because of Islam?
If you were a Christian or a Jew
or a follower of another religion
for whom a similar reality exists,
it would be easier to make a jump.
There is a very famous
"Not being able to know something
is no proof that it doesn't exist."
But making that jump,
taking a leap of faith,
isn't as easy as it sounds.
In Western universities, historical
research is all about scepticism
and doubt.
And just as earlier generations
of scholars
turned a penetrating spotlight
on the life of Jesus,
so now some are taking a radical
new look at the life of Mohammed.
Patricia Crone is
a professor at Princeton,
she was one of a number of
historians
whose research into
the roots of Islam
"You cannot reject
the Muslim story", she wrote,
"but you cannot accept it, either.
"The only solution is to step
outside of the Islamic tradition,
"and start again."
There is a curtain, as regards
Mohammed, that you can't get behind.
What do we know about him
and his life?
Ah, well, we know that he existed,
we know that he was active
somewhere in Arabia,
we know that he is associated
with the book the Koran,
he was the one who uttered it,
but it doesn't get us
to what actually happened,
which is what, of course, a
historian would like to reconstruct.
We have absence of evidence.
We have the Koran,
and you can't tell
the story of the basis of the Koran.
We have various early
non-Muslim sources.
They don't add up to a story.
We have nothing, we have this one
book out of...and nothing.
There is complete darkness.
But here,
that's not the way they see things.
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