RLG350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, Arabian Peninsula
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Founder of religion and a polity ( a common way) What he started became world history like alexander the great. We want to know things as certain as we can. I. e when muhammad (s) was born a light shone from arabia to syria. Non miraculous approach study him as a historical figure rather than man of god. Arabia was in the middle of the civilized world but not part of it. Never under a control of any imperial power. Arabia was very far from the civilizations due to its climate. At that moment the byzantine empire, sassanian empire arabia was like the greenland of today. Incense trade had collapsed by the 6th century after christianity the trade was not arabia"s forte. 2200 km length 1100 km in width vast steppe land larger than india or europe (west east and scandinavia) massive land that has historically been inactive. Mesopotamians had tablets, romans etc u turn all went north never across.
