NMC285H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Muhammad In Medina
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There is a notable distance in meccan and medinan suras in style as well: not from poetry to prose but closer. The medinan suras are more like prose than. They are closer to the hadiths than the earlier writing: are we mistaking a generic distance from a chronological distance, no. How do you go from no rules, to new. Rules: a movement can"t have staying power, its cant move forward into the future without some rules it has to become a community in order to move forward. Was there a script: to go from movement to community you are writing a script. Torah), through jealously, etc. these people split from one another. !2: states that god could have created a uni ed community but he declined that option. The idea of factionalism is a departure from what god has prescribed.