If you recall, a few postings ago, I noted that oddly Persia/Iran is not mentioned in the Koran …
Gabriel Reynolds of Univ. of Notre Dame explored the name Muhammad in her 2011 article published by "Numen" and confirmed that the Koran “shows little interest in the names of the people and places of its historical context”…
According to Reynolds (2011), the Koran briefly mentions the Romans (Byzantines) and the Quraysh but without any details… it does not mention Mecca as a city or the sites of battles such as Badr… names that one would expect to see in the Koran are not mentioned either such as Arabia, Yemen, the Red Sea, Persia/Iran… names of Muhammad’s wives Khadija or Aisha, daughter Fatima, uncle Abu Talib, cousin Ali or companion & father-in-law Abu Bakr etc. are all missing… the only time the Koran refers to the Muslim prophet’s name is by Ahmad, not Muhammad… both Ahmad and Muhammad appear to be honorary epithets—one form popular among Jewish Arabs and the other among Christian Arabs…
The earliest time the name Muhammad appears in a religious text is on an Umayyad Caliphate coin dated 690 and the Dome of the Rock dated 691… there is reference to Muhammad on a Perso-Arabic coin post Arab invasion of Persia minted 685… many decades after Muhammad’s death…
Given the recent discovery of the oldest Koran appearing to pre-date the foundation of Islam, some experts speculated that the Koran was a revised version of an older, existing text (http://www.breitbart.com/
[pic: Shakespeare…for educational purposes only]
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