History 2606E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Banu Hashim, Papaya, Quraysh

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The prophet muhammad and the birth of islam. Problem with the beginning of islam is that there is no written primary sources at the beginning. The challenge is that the stories of the rise of the prophet and the rise of islam occurs 1000 years after the fact. Muslin history: the impact of the lack of early primary sources: Lack of writing material (paper wasn"t invented yet, so instead people used stones, papaya) (especially in arabia, a good group of people were illiterate) The written arabic language is not standardized ( Earlier material was transmitted orally (every society doesn"t have writing materials, or a standardized language) Events and saying may be influenced by later interests: For example: groups who want to claim being closer to the prophet. The use of non- arabic and non-islamic contemporary sources from the middle east such as syriac, jewish and armenian to interpret the appearance of islam.

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