If Christians and Jews were companions of Muhammad, later Arab rulers would have legitimacy reasons to purge both those people and their history.
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Companions
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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"...war to determine who will be in charge. Okay? Those early companions were probably purged. The word we use is purged. They're wiped out..."
"Because if these are the companions of Muhammad, Christians and Jews then they're legitimate. They're more legitimate than you are. So therefore they have..."
"...upon his chest, just like a son and not like a companion."
"...the only soul who had not been changed among the three companions we had met at first, the other one made you, Gavile, grieve."
"...saw the other islands that sea bathes. And I and my companions were already old and slow. When we approached the narrows where Hercules"
"...of remaining and then he set on the jaw of a companion opening his mouth and shouting this is he and he speaks not..."
"...that i am reassured by conscience that good can't be a companion heartening a man beneath the breastplace of its purity i surely saw..."
"...racked by rightful punishments, I drew in closer to my true companion for how could I have run ahead without him? Who could have..."
"...jaws. When he'd uncovered his enormous mouth, he said to his companions, Have you noticed how he who walks behind moves what he touches?"
"...path. Give us one of your band to serve as our companion, and let him show us where to ford the ditch. And let..."
"...has come to share our torments and goes there with our companions, has caused us much affliction with his words. New comers to the..."
"...ended years of gladness, were honored then as were its close companions. A Buondamante through another's counsel, you fled your wedding pledge and brought..."
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