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Islam Before Islam
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ISBN13: 9798253552759
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A radical thesis on the origins of Islam. What if Islam was not a new religion that descended from heaven, but the organic continuation of a much older tradition-the Jacobite (Miaphysite) church? What if the Prophet Muhammad was not a single historical figure but a composite of several? What if Quraysh was the Jewish Resh Galuta (Head of the Exile), and Mecca was the Land of the Maccabees? This book is not a neutral academic study. It is a thesis-a provocation-an invitation to rethink the history of the Middle East from a radically different perspective. --- **What This Book Is: ** - A coherent hypothesis that connects historical dots from 1st century Jerusalem through 6th century Byzantium to 7th century Arabia.
- A reading of history from within-an insider's journey through Jewish, Christian, Roman, and Islamic texts.
- An invitation to ask uncomfortable questions about the origins of Islam and its relationship to earlier traditions. --- **What This Book Is Not: ** - Not a neutral academic study-it argues a thesis with conviction.
- Not a defense of any religion-it is a historical inquiry into how one tradition flowed into another.
- Not a work of theology-it traces what can be documented through historical texts. --- **The Journey: ** From James the Just, the brother of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem church, through the great schisms of Ephesus and Chalcedon, to the Empress Theodora and the missionary Jacob Baradaeus, this book traces the continuous thread of the Jacobite (Miaphysite) tradition-a tradition that preserved pure monotheism against Pauline innovations of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ. In the 7th century, this current re-emerged under a new name, shaped by messianic Jewish movements, liberation from Byzantine oppression, and the political consolidation of the Marwanid (Umayyad) dynasty. The result was what we now call Islam. --- **Read it as a thesis. Debate it. Challenge it.** The truth is not found in comfortable stories-it is found in the courage to ask uncomfortable questions and follow the evidence wherever it leads. --- **Key Topics Covered: ** - James the Just and the original Jerusalem church
- The conflict between the Jacobean and Pauline currents
- The Council of Jerusalem and its aftermath
- The destruction of Jerusalem and the Bar Kokhba revolt
- The Jacobites (Nazarenes) through the centuries
- The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon
- Empress Theodora and Jacob Baradaeus
- The Byzantine-Sassanian war and the Jewish revolt of 614 CE
- Nehemiah ben Hushiel, Shallum ben Hushiel (Salman al-Farsi), and Benjamin of Tiberias
- Marwan ibn al-Hakam and the meaning of Muhammad
- Quraysh, Mecca, and the Maccabean connection
- An invitation to ask uncomfortable questions about the origins of Islam and its relationship to earlier traditions. --- **What This Book Is Not: ** - Not a neutral academic study-it argues a thesis with conviction.
- Not a defense of any religion-it is a historical inquiry into how one tradition flowed into another.
- Not a work of theology-it traces what can be documented through historical texts. --- **The Journey: ** From James the Just, the brother of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem church, through the great schisms of Ephesus and Chalcedon, to the Empress Theodora and the missionary Jacob Baradaeus, this book traces the continuous thread of the Jacobite (Miaphysite) tradition-a tradition that preserved pure monotheism against Pauline innovations of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ. In the 7th century, this current re-emerged under a new name, shaped by messianic Jewish movements, liberation from Byzantine oppression, and the political consolidation of the Marwanid (Umayyad) dynasty. The result was what we now call Islam. --- **Read it as a thesis. Debate it. Challenge it.** The truth is not found in comfortable stories-it is found in the courage to ask uncomfortable questions and follow the evidence wherever it leads. --- **Key Topics Covered: ** - James the Just and the original Jerusalem church
- The conflict between the Jacobean and Pauline currents
- The Council of Jerusalem and its aftermath
- The destruction of Jerusalem and the Bar Kokhba revolt
- The Jacobites (Nazarenes) through the centuries
- The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon
- Empress Theodora and Jacob Baradaeus
- The Byzantine-Sassanian war and the Jewish revolt of 614 CE
- Nehemiah ben Hushiel, Shallum ben Hushiel (Salman al-Farsi), and Benjamin of Tiberias
- Marwan ibn al-Hakam and the meaning of Muhammad
- Quraysh, Mecca, and the Maccabean connection
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