Posted on 12/12/2006 8:01:11 PM PST by dennisw
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 11 - Religious prophet Muhammad suffered from epileptic seizures, according to a book recently released by a Tehran- native and Muslim-raised neuropsychologist. Abbas Sadeghian delivers these findings in the book Sword & Seizure, which is based on historical text, including the Koran.
Sadeghian was inspired by a comparable paper he presented in 2001 at New York University's Fielding Institute. He says Muhammad had suffered from "complex partial seizures," which are displayed through "excessive sweating and light trembling, olfactory, auditory and visual hallucinations, epigastric sensations (bad taste), excessive perspiration and hyper-religiosity." He says evidence of these is recounted throughout the Koran.
When asked by a reporter from the Canton Repository if the same diagnosis could apply to Jesus, Buddha or other religious figures, Sadeghian replied there aren't nearly as many independent historical documents detailing their lives.
"In order to do proper analysis, you must have documentation independent of what the person wrote," he said. "Muhammad lived longer and had people around him who were aware they were living in a historic moment.
They documented observations in extreme detail and in real time."
Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D has been practicing neuropsychology for nearly 20 years and is a long-standing faculty member at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.
His book is now available at both Barnes & Noble and Borders, as well as Amazon and the publisher's online store.
i see a youts riot in the making
Hope the guy has a body guard.
He'd better stay in Ohio and maybe change his name. You can say this sort of thing (accurately) about Julius Caesar without having Italians camping out on your doorstep with suicide belts. Not so with Mo.
Sounded like a bad acid trip.
I sense a fatwa in this guy's future.
I always thought the Mo got his visions while suffering from Carbon Monoxide poisoning from the fires in that cave.
And a Merry Fatwa to you, Mr. Sadeghian.
Thats his excuse. Whats up with the rest of them?
An epileptic pedophiliac, ego maniacal, POS, now has modern day apologists?
So, Islam is a religion of sheik rattle and roll.
We've got your back, Doc.
For Allah is an insecure god and Mohammed is his enabler. Any slight on the Word of Islam obliges the Religion of Peace to go absolutely bug*$&%, thus proving what a peaceful, non-violent, enlightened religion it is.
So, what documents are those? One of them has been identified as a Christian missionary guide developed in Damascus for use by missionaries to Mecca.
Other items are undoubtedly torahs buried, and found in and around Mecca ~ quite possibly in the "cave" where Mohammad is supposed to have met an angel.
neuropsychology ?
You almost made me spit my beverage all over my keyboard :)
This fellow is certainly not the first to discuss Mo's epileptic seizures. During those times that would not even be a negative since epilepsy was considered a affliction from God.
Quite possibly so. It was recently established that the Delphi Oracle went into a trance and got her visions by inhaling ethane gas leaking into her cave.
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