It’s believed Mohammed was an orphan or orphaned as a adolescent and was taken under the wing of a Christian scholar.
Mohammed wanted to assert control over Arabs who had an age old enemy in Jews and Christians.
That above explains a lot. Mohammed asserting that the bible was corrupted and incorporating characters of the bible, allowed Mohammed to claim that historic lineage for Islam. Further, to appeal to the Arab sensibilities, where Jews and Christians were enemies, the Koran is written as literally an anti-thesis to the bible. In other words, they your enemy and they are wrong about God. The entire purpose being control and barbarous conquest -the tenants of Islam (permitted lying, taking of booty, taking of slaves, subjugation of women, beheading of prisoners) all serve that pursuit.
I had never heard that before. Must research that point.
If true, sounds like a certain modern-day "constitutional scholar" who studied the Constitution only to find ways to destroy it.