Re:Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor
by eternalban on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:28PM
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> As for the name Muhammed goes, it means "chosen one".
Actually the name of the Prophet has the Arabic roots h.m.d. denoting 'praise', and we have the names Ahmad, Muhammad, and Hamid derived from that root.
This isn't esoteric occult knowledge, btw. You could do a cursory search before you post:
> Dan Gibson claims that early mosques face Petra rather than Mecca. But he compares the mosque orientations with MODERN directions of Petra and Mecca. He does not realise that historical qibla directions cannot be the same as modern qibla directions. In fact, the easiest mosque orientations were not calculated at all, but relied on astronomical horizon phenomena, not least because the Kaaba itself is astronomically aligned.
Re:Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor
by Nicholas_C on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:46AM
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>Muhammed never stepped into Mecca
Muhammed was from Mecca so I’m not sure about that.
The parent is referring to a thesis that Muhammad was not from Mecca, and the entire insertion of Mecca is a politically-motivated alteration to early Islam. This theory hasn't gained a lot of credence among modern historians, however.
(See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/98auh0/does_... for example).
Most of Islam's early history is forged. For example take the location of their holy city of Mecca. Muhammed never stepped into Mecca and he was from Petra. Dan Gibson has done an excellent documentary on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnGvzVceVo)
As for the name Muhammed goes, it means "chosen one". It was name used to refer to Jesus initially. Half the christians claimed he was the son of god while the other half believed he was just a normal human who was chosen by god. They started calling him Muhammed instead implying he was not the son of god.