Follow the evidence and the biblical argument

Compare dated inscriptions, monuments, geographical arguments, and later literary narratives. This path brings together studies of early Islamic identity and political institutions while keeping the limits of preservation, arguments from silence, and disagreements among historians in view. Revisionist proposals should be assessed as proposals rather than treated as a settled consensus.

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Questions to Explore

• What do inscriptions and monuments reveal about early religious identity?
• How should geographical and prayer-direction arguments be evaluated?
• Where do traditional, revisionist, and moderate historical models agree or diverge?

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Each link opens an article guide with a route to the complete study on Substack. Watch and Listen resources are available there where provided.

Inscriptions, monuments, and sacred geography

• Epigraphy, Historical Skepticism, and the Origins of Islam: A Critical Realist Evaluation of Seventh-Century Rock Inscriptions against the Space-Time Bedrock of the Promise-Plan
• Architectural Polemics: The Marwanid Origins of the Dome of the Rock and the Unfolding of the Biblical Promise-Plan
• The Petra Genesis and the Revisionist Revision of Islamic Origins: A Historical-Critical and Biblical-Theological Appraisal
• Deconstructing the Historical Muhammad and the Meccan Myth

Narrative formation and competing historical reconstructions

• Decoding Islamic Origins
• Historical Scrutiny of Islamic Origins: Narrative Construction, Inlibration, and the Promise-Plan of God
• Inventing Muhammad and the Failure of Inlibration: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal of Early Islamic Origins
• Deconstructing the Standard Islamic Narrative
• Mohammad vs Jesus: Who Has Better Historical Evidence?

New Studies

• The Fabric of Origins: Critical Realism, Codicological Instability, and the Canonical Architecture of the Biblical Promise-Plan