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Jiang argues that Islamic imperial successors whitewashed Muhammad's revolutionary history because empires do not want to celebrate a revolutionary model that could be used against them.
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Whitewashing History
Jiang argues that Islamic imperial successors whitewashed Muhammad's revolutionary history because empires do not want to celebrate a revolutionary model that could be used against them.
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"You are now allowed to practice any faith you want. You have that freedom now. That's important to people. You now have some land..."
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"The history is that Muhammad was disgusted by the inequality and corruption he saw in the world around him. And he promised the people..."
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"And that's why there's so little written about Muhammad. And that's why the Koran doesn't really tell us that much about Muhammad. Okay? Because..."
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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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