[Gay State Conservative]

Given that the official date of Islam is 622AD, Seventh Century has a pleasing sibilance.

It may well be historically accurate to do so but I,unlike some,am willing to give I Slam credit for having progressed normally for a century or two before hitting the brick wall of ignorance.

[aruanan]

It may well be historically accurate to do so but I,unlike some,am willing to give I Slam credit for having progressed normally for a century or two before hitting the brick wall of ignorance.

No, it "progressed" a few decades while Muhammad was trying to get the Christian and Jewish kingdoms of the Arabian peninsula to sign on by including Friday prayers, prayers facing Jerusalem, etc., until they told him to pound sand. Very shortly after that he called for a peace conference and then killed the delegations and shortly thereafter ridded the Arabian peninsula of its high tech Jewish and Christian civilization. This was the origin of the extreme Saudi position against anything other than Islam in Saudi Arabia.

If it hadn't been for the Black Death, the Roman and Persian Empires would have been able to keep hiring the Arabian Bedouins as mercenaries and Muhammad wouldn't have had the time or opportunity to devise anything different.