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another quick note: about the alleged christians in the region. In the time preceding Islam the region was thoroughly antagonistic to any religious reformation. For centuries the cult of pagan worship was set in the face of Jewish settlements and foreign attempts of evangelization. William Muir argued that the Jewish presence deterred from evangelization in two ways, by establishing itself in the north and the pagan stronghold in the south.
The true fact is christianity of the 7th century was itself mired in corruption and myth and in a state of complete stagnation. Formally submitting the region to christianity would have required more than religious persuasion but political coercion of superior powers and no such power bore down on the region. Five centuries of Christian evangelism had bore down a meager results and were limited to Banu Harith of Najran and Banu hanifah of yamama. No historical record do not show a single incident of persecution toward the christians.
Again, I am at a loss as to where she gets her info from, for even the orientalists and staunch anti Muslims seem to have a completely opposing views to hers.
The true fact is christianity of the 7th century was itself mired in corruption and myth and in a state of complete stagnation. Formally submitting the region to christianity would have required more than religious persuasion but political coercion of superior powers and no such power bore down on the region. Five centuries of Christian evangelism had bore down a meager results and were limited to Banu Harith of Najran and Banu hanifah of yamama. No historical record do not show a single incident of persecution toward the christians.
Again, I am at a loss as to where she gets her info from, for even the orientalists and staunch anti Muslims seem to have a completely opposing views to hers.
