The Petra Genesis and the Revisionist Revision of Islamic Origins: A Historical-Critical and Biblical-Theological Appraisal

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This essay examines historical-critical challenges to the Standard Islamic Narrative S.I.N.) regarding the origins of Islam, focusing on geographical, archaeological, and textual arguments that situate early Islamic sanctuaries in northern Arabia and the Levant—particularly the Nabataean region around Petra—rather than in the Hijaz of Mecca as in later tradition.