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In Jiang's explanation of Dante's medieval frame, Muhammad is treated as the founder of a Christian heresy and Ali as the figure whose line produced the Sunni-Shia schism.
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Muhammad
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Jiang reads the rise of Islam and Muhammad through the same pattern of rival empires, messianic emergence, and Jerusalem-centered restoration.
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Jiang presents Muhammad as the leader who unites Arabs, Nestorians, and Jews under religious tolerance before later factions turn the movement into Islam.
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Jiang presents the Constitution of Medina as Muhammad’s promise of religious openness: Jews, Christians, Arabs, and others may practice their religion under the prophet’s community.
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He compares Putin's possible failure to Muhammad's death, arguing that a charismatic unifier may almost bind the world but leave civil conflict if he dies too soon.
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Jiang argues that Muhammad was the Jewish Messiah expected to lead victory against Byzantium and Heraclius.
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According to Jiang's reconstruction, Muhammad could unite the world by declaring himself the promised one, grounding Jews, Christians, and Muslims as children of Abraham, and dissolving religious divisions as tools of priestly and political exploitation.
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He treats Descartes's angel dream, Muhammad's revelation, Einstein's daydreams, and Watson's double-helix insight as structurally similar moments of inspired knowledge.
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"...okay and the first two people we see being punished are muhammad and ali and this of course would be confusing to a lot..."
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"supreme leader and the sunnis believe no that's not necessarily the case okay and that caused a massive schism which continues to today okay..."
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"...600 CE, is the rise of Islam and the rise of Muhammad."
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"...look into the history of the rise of Islam and the Muhammad, a very similar framework where there's two empires fighting each other, the..."
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"...will happen is, this leader will emerge, and his name is Muhammad."
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"And Muhammad will unite Arabia, and then he will unite the Nestorians, he will unite the Jews, and they will together fight to get..."
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"But remember, this is really important. Muhammad himself did not preach Islam. All he preached was, I'm Messiah, I'm the messenger of God, like..."
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"...this is Wikipedia, okay? All right, so the first thing that Muhammad's going to do is announce the concentration of Medina, which is to..."
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"...different from what happened in about 650, 600 Common Era when Muhammad was this great charismatic figure who was supposed to unite all the......"
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"And they're different candidates, but ultimately they settle on one charismatic man who is absolutely convinced that he is in fact the Jewish Messiah...."
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"I am the anointed one. Okay, that's the first thing. Second thing he needed to say is that we are all the children of..."
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"These factions, these divisions only exist for the priest class to exploit us, for the emperor, for the political class to unite, to divide..."
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