The mainstream historical narratives of most religions are replete with tall tales and mythologies, which are revised and reinterpreted by later generations. Regarding Islam, Karl Heinz and Gerd Puin used overwhelming epigraphic and numismatic evidentiary facts to challenge mainstream Islamic narratives - facts so compelling that no critical opposition has been able to refute them with comparable and linguistic evidence.
In their book, "The Hidden Origins of Islam," Karl and Gerd make the following claims:
1. The most reliable literary sources about the life of Muhammed were written nearly 200 years after the event they describe.
2. Muhammed and the first four Caliphs, in Islamic narratives, are characters of myth.
3. The name "Muhammed" first appeared on Arab coins during the reign of Abd Al-Malik and not prior.
4. The name "Muhammed" was originally a title like "Christ."
5. The inscription on the Dome of the Rock, "Muhammad Abdu Llahi wa-rasuluhu": "praised be the Servant of God and his messenger," is a Christian statement and not Islamic.
6. The Dome of the Rock built in i.692 by Abd Al-Malik was not originally a mosque but a Byzantine-Syrian church.
7. Classical Arabic can be traced back to Syria. However, Quranic Arabic is a rework and intentional vowelization of the Syriac triconsonantal root systems of Classical Arabic.
So, who's the historical Muhammed.....did he even exist?
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