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Introduction:

The failure of the traditional orientalists, who considered and used the islamic traditions as primary sources, though they were in fact secondary and third. Stories were taken as history. The scientific work on the sources of Islam is not new, but got in a total different stage. Far of providing a full pictures, the results are breath-taking already now. The real picture of origin of Islam has very little to nothing to do with the traditional and official versions.

The Traditional Koran:

The Koran-edition of Cairo, 1924, is for the Muslim mainstream the only authorized edition. It is postulated to be 100% identic with Otoman-Koran, which is said to contain the original messages, the Prophet has received direct from Allah through the angel Gibril. The Koran of Cairo claims therefore to be the authentic copy of the original stored in paradise: Free of errors, mistakes, and changes in pure Arabic - from Muhamad up to today. Modern sciences however show a total different picture. There were hundreds of differing editions, thousands of alternations and mistakes are known, hundreds of words from other languagues such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Persian and Aramaic are present in the Koran.

The Quran of Sciences:

There are a lot of so called dark passages in the Koran which no Muslim interpreter was able to understand, what resulted in so many  different interpretations. The traditional excuse is, we are not able to understand fully Allahs perfect Arabic. Christoph Luxenberg, arabist and specialist in old oriental languagues, caused a tsunami within the scientific world and earned a placement on the front-page of the New York Times with a publication, which existed in German languague only: He read a number of those dark phrases in the languague of the time, which was Syro-Aramaic. Seemingly senseless phrases made suddenly a sense. He proved the famous „maids in paradise“ to be in fact „sweet, clear grapes“ - bad news for djihadists. The burqa/veil is a complete mistranslation of the Aramaic „belt“ and nothing more but the personal opinion of at-Tabari, a famous Koran-editor around the year 900. Since then the veil is considered in the Islamic world to be god`s command, though there is not one word about in Koran. It turned out, the original languague of the Koran was defenitely not Arabic. There did not exist anything like Koranarabic in the 7th or 8th century. Much of the Koran is clearly based on Syro - Aramaic texts, and is a translation  of later times (9th century ).

The Traditional Muhamad:

This chapter is an abstract  of the traditional Muhamad - legends.

The Muhamad of Sciences:

We do not have any trace of the prophet Muhamad for about 250 years after after his death. For the 6th and 7th century we do not have even any trace of the name „Muhamad“ itself. The reason: Muhamad was at that time a title and not a name. The first mentions of muhamad  come from the eastern-provinces  of the Persian Empire on coins bearing this name plus christian symbols. muhamad was used by Christian Arabs and meant the „to be praised one“. Coins bearing the muhamad-logo and/or „halifat Allah“ together with a standardized figure with a large sword, were traditionally interpreted to be a Caliph or even Muhamad. Modern research tells us, it is without doubt the eschatologic Christ with the sword of judgment and the title „announcer for god“ (halifat Allah). The „to be praised one“, the muhamad was Jesus. This  very clearly tells the inscription in the „Dome of Rock“ in Jerusalem: „To be praised is Isa bin Maryiam“. The muhamad was the Christ of the Arabian Christians, it was Jesus. During 9th centure the muhamad developped into the Muhamad, the Prophet of the Arabs. „Muhamad“ was a figure of identification, but did not exist as person.

The Church on the Temple Mount:

„The Dome of the Rocks“ in Jerusalem was built in the year 694  by Abdel Malik. He was an arab-christian ruler and a fervent promoter of the „praised one“=muhamad=Jesus, which was supposed to return in near future to earth to conduct the final judgment as it is pcitured on his coins. This judgement was expected to be held on the temple mount, on the place of the temple Salomon´s. Precisely on this place Malik bult his church. On the 240 m long band of the still existing kufic inscriptions (pictures and translation in the book) Malik layed down his religious program: It is the typical christian - monophysistic credo. In the 11th century only, the church got the Islamic tradition of the ascension of Muhamad. It was never an active mosque (this was the Al Aqsa opposite) until few decades ago, when the Dome of the Rocks became symbol of Muslim Palestine.

The „Golden Years“ of Islam:

Many Muslims are wishing back the „Golden Years“ of Islam, when the prophet was alive and leading his community, creating the perfect society. We do not have any primary sources of these times, however, just legends. Connected to these  legends is the conquest and islamisation of half of the known world. Again, we do not have any historical facts of these events for the 8th century, the time they were reported for. „Golden Years“ were considered also those, when muslim scientists and scholars were the leading ones in the world. Names such as Al-Farabi, Hunnain, Biruni, Ibn Sina (Avicenna in the West), Ibn Rushd (Averoes) or Thabit (Thebit) are famous. However none of them was Muslim in todays sense and as scientists and philosophers in the Greek tradition distant to mere believes. Ibn Rushd was even declared „apostate“ and exiled, his books were burned. There were  Golden Times of Arab scientists, but not of Muslim scientists. Moreover, the establishing of Islam  crashed the flourishing Arab sciences  within short time. The sciences have been expelled then to the west, where they still are.

From Jesus to Muhamad:

MHMD was in ancient Ugarit the root for „golden“. This developped in Mesopotamia (inhabited by the „Arabi“) into „muhamad/un“ for „blessed, to be praised“ and into the titel muhamad which was nothing else but „Christ“. This, the christian „Muhamadism“ moved with Abdel Malik from Eastern Persia to Palestine. Nothing was known then, in the 7th century, of a place called Mekka and a prophet Muhamad. Jerusalem was the center of the „followers of the muhamad“ (as the Koran confirms ,by the way). In 9th century only the stories of a prophet from Mekka  named Muhamad with his holy book Koran started circulating, the specific Arab monophysite christianity developped into an own religion called Islam. The Aramaic qeryana of the arab Christians got transformed into the quran, undergoing many modifications and blendings with Beduin traditions. Even the old godesses from the desert got a revival. Godess of the moon was Allat, her black stone is still worshipped in Mekka. Godess of the morning star was Uzza. Their symbols are still  present in the flags of many Muslim countries.

Only in the 11th century we find the situation, which the Muslim traditions describe  for the 8th

century.

„Who has done all this to us?“:

The Muslim and Arab world is in very poor shape. If something goes wrong the typical questions are: What went wrong? What did we make wrong? What can we do? In the Muslim world the traditional question is: Who has done this to us? The answers are always the same: The Franks, the Crusaders, the British, the French, the Soviets and at present Israel, the USA, the West. Remedy is believed to be the return to Muslim values and the  conditions of the„Golden Times“. This expresses the-again- modern movement of salafiya: Back to prophet`times. It is and idealistic view back to a history which had never existed. Modern views make it urgently advisable to reinterprete the Koran and clear it of misinterpretations occured in the course of centuries. Particularly the origin of the „Hadith“ needs to be reviewed. The bearded Imams and Ayatollahs have failed to make Islam compatible to the modern world. Who else could accomplish this task better than  young, educated Muslims in the diaspora?

Title: Good Bye Mohammed. Wir der Islam wirklich entstand  (The true origins of Islam)

Author: Norbert G.Pressburg

Languague: German

Pages: 167

Pictures: 33

Map: 1

Publisher: BoD, Norderstedt, Germany

ISBN: 978-3-8391-9203-0

Copyright: N.G.Pressburg, 2009

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