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Jiang presents early Islam as open, tolerant, and inclusive from the Constitution of Medina onward.
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Early Islam
At Islam's beginning, Jiang says Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians could be understood as one coalition of believers rather than sharply separated religions.
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diagnosis
Jiang presents missing records, succession, and the Temple Mount as three mysteries whose answers are partly inaccessible because the early historical record is lost.
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At Islam's beginning, Jiang says Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians could be understood as one coalition of believers rather than sharply separated religions.
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Jiang's first answer to missing early records is that Islam began as a revolution against the social order and later had incentives to hide that revolutionary origin.
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He treats an early Christian bishop's account as evidence that Muhammad existed, was a merchant-preacher, and called Arabs from polytheism toward the God of Abraham.
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Jiang says the lecture will answer who Muhammad really was, how Islam triumphed, and why early Islamic history is so poorly known.
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"So he's based in Mecca. And when he tries to reveal the truth, he is met with a lot of resistance. And eventually he's..."
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"This is the Hajj in Mecca. And I was actually in Saudi Arabia, and I tried to go there, and then I was told,..."
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"Another strange thing is, why would the Muslims go to war against two major empires, the Romans and the Persians? That's kind of suicidal...."
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"So this is a very important question that is still relevant to us. Thank you. So we will also look at these three mysteries...."
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"Okay? This is the beginning of the idea of crusade. And they retake the city, and then what they do is, they expel the..."
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"Abraham was the first, then you have Moses, then you have Jesus, and now, Muhammad is the very last. So, all these three different..."
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"...they died in military conflicts. But here's the amazing thing about early Islam history. We don't have that much evidence of military conflict between..."
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"Okay, good morning. So we are doing Muhammad and the rise of Islam today. Muhammad, as you know, is one of the most important..."
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"So we know he existed, so we know that he was a real person, and he was a founder of the Islamic tradition. And..."
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"major questions first of all who was muhammad really who was this person what did he believe what did he want that's first question..."
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