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He argues that Arabia became an unusually innovative religious refuge because people there could practice personal faith, communicate with God directly, and ask questions outside centralized authority.
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Arabian Desert
He argues that Arabia became an unusually innovative religious refuge because people there could practice personal faith, communicate with God directly, and ask questions outside centralized authority.
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"...either go to the Sassanid Empire or they go to the Arabian Desert. Many Jews go to the Arabian Desert. Why? Because in the..."
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"...though they are very controversial, they all end up in the Arabian Desert in order to practice their faith. You also have a lot..."
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"...lost the war against the Romans, they will go into the Arabian Desert where they will incubate a new religion called Islam. And they..."
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"...will take is for one charismatic leader to emerge in the Arabian desert to say, I'm the Messiah, follow me. What I will promise..."
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"...Trinity, Christians are forced into the Persian Empire and into the Arabian desert, okay?"
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"...The Christians will also go into... They will go into the Arabian desert as well to promote Christianity, okay? But you can see how..."
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"So the Arabian desert, we don't talk much about it, but it is a crossroads of empire, and it's a crossroads of culture as..."
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"once Muhammad comes into place and he unites the Arabian desert into a new community of followers, okay, they'll spread really quickly throughout the..."
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"...a lot escape. Where do they go? They go to the Arabian Desert. Why do they go to the Arabian Desert? Because they believe..."
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"...That makes no sense. Okay, so as we discussed, now the Arabian desert is energized. People are energetic because people thirst for religious liberation,..."
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"...Islam. And so during this time, there's widespread belief in the Arabian desert that a Messiah would eventually come to unite the Jewish people..."
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"...of peace, truth, and justice. So the Jews go into the Arabian desert, and now they're looking for their Messiah, the promised Messiah."
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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