Thread by @Riaz1Khokhar

If there's one book that you should read on the political and ideological struggles of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in the context of 7th ce GAME OF THRONES between the Roman Empire and the Sasanian Empire of Iran, it's @jricole's "MUHAMMAD: PROPHET OF PEACE AMID THE CLASH OF EMPIRES".

Thread: my favorite quotes from the book:
"Quran makes it clear that this struggle between rival emperors, whom contemporaries called 'the teo eyes kf the earth' formed an essential context for the mission of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ".

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"The misapprehensions came about for many reasons, including the imperial ideologies of the later Christian Byzantine and Muslim Abbasid empires, difficulties in interpreting the text, and a failure to read it against contemporary Roman and Iranian texts..."
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"The Qur’an repeatedly instructs Believers to “repel evil with good,” pardon their persecutors, and wish peace on those who harassed them."
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"The Roman and Sasanian Empires had for centuries engaged in a globe-straddling contest for dominance, and throughout Muhammad’s lifetime this imperial struggle would intensify in its savagery, powerfully shaping his world and his views on the desirability of peace." @jricole

"Muhammad, a scion of the Banu Hashim, which specialized in settling feuds and keeping the peace around the Kaaba sanctuary, would have found himself forced to negotiate such challenges despite his youth and inexperience."

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"A long-distance merchant like Muhammad operated in a trilingual environment of Arabic, Greek, and Aramaic."

This makes it important to appreciate the trilingual connotations of words used in Quran to interpret it correctly!

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"[Prophet Muhammad] would have found unusual words in their Neoplatonic and Christian Greek-inflected Arabic for conceptions such as divine love, wisdom, and salvation, which would have piqued his curiosity."

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"Muhammad sat beneath a tree. A local monk named Nestorios approached Khadija’s agent Maysara breathlessly with a series of questions about the stranger. He declared, “No one but a prophet has ever sat beneath that tree.”

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"Years later, Muhammad as an old man would recite verses of the Qur’an that praised Christians for their loving attitude, adding, “That is because they have among them priests and monks, and they are not haughty.” (5:82)
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"Muhammad is said to have doubled Khadija’s investment."

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"BACK IN MECCA, Muhammad’s rising reputation as a canny merchant and manager of men impressed Khadija on a personal and not just a business level. [Khadija was herself] a resolute, disciplined and honorable woman”.

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Read the dialogue between Hazrat Khadija's emissary and Prophet Muhammad ﷺ about the marriage.

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"With Khadija’s backing, Muhammad led summer trading missions to cities such as Bostra, Gaza, and Damascus, perhaps annually...He used to go up from his town, Yathrib, to Palestine for commerce, buying and selling.”

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While Prophet Muhammad ﷺ conducted summer trade in Syria and Palestine, "he also regularly conducted winter commerce to the south in Yemen, with its Iranian garrisons and local pagans, Jews, and Christians."

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Prophet Muhammad's spiritual curiosity and pursuits!! Amazing!!
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Mecca 🕋 was the place where disputes were kept aside. People respected it as a sacred city!

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Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was "literate, as any great long-distance merchant would have been. He knew the Bible, probably in written Aramaic versions and oral Arab traditions, though possibly in Greek as well.”

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The outbreak of world war in 603, when Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was around 35.
“The Qur’an came to Muhammad in Mecca, a rare idyllic no-man’s-land between battling titans but one threatened with being engulfed by the conflict.”
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"Muhammad was a great merchant rather than an ascetic and urged positive engagement with the world.”
@jricole Muhammad: the Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
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@jricole on why Meccan pagans reacted angrily to Prophet Muhammad's message of monotheism.
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@jricole: "For one thing, Muhammad acknowledged the moral autonomy of others; therefore, his followers had no option but to live amicably among the misguided.”
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