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:Ok thanks. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 03:00, 27 February 2014 (PST) | :Ok thanks. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 03:00, 27 February 2014 (PST) | ||
::I have complete the names and reasons. Am I permitted to trim or extend descriptions for the purpose of readability? | |||
I have complete the names and reasons. Am I permitted to trim or extend descriptions for the purpose of readability? | |||
[[User:LawrenceGilmore|LawrenceGilmore]] ([[User talk:LawrenceGilmore|talk]]) 08:57, 3 March 2014 (PST) | [[User:LawrenceGilmore|LawrenceGilmore]] ([[User talk:LawrenceGilmore|talk]]) 08:57, 3 March 2014 (PST) | ||
:Hi Lawrence. Nice to hear of your progression with this. If you mean the text, then no. Translations should remain absolutely faithful to the original English work. [[User:Sahab|--Sahab]] ([[User talk:Sahab|talk]]) 09:03, 3 March 2014 (PST) | :::Hi Lawrence. Nice to hear of your progression with this. If you mean the text, then no. Translations should remain absolutely faithful to the original English work. [[User:Sahab|--Sahab]] ([[User talk:Sahab|talk]]) 09:03, 3 March 2014 (PST) | ||
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Is this list of Killings Ordered or Supported by Muhammad accurate?|publisher= Skeptics Stack Exchange|author= |date= January 25, 2015|archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/6VtxPputL|deadurl=no}}| | Is this list of Killings Ordered or Supported by Muhammad accurate?|publisher= Skeptics Stack Exchange|author= |date= January 25, 2015|archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/6VtxPputL|deadurl=no}}| | ||
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I'd like to know to what extend this list is trustable: | |||
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Supported_by_Muhammad | http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Supported_by_Muhammad | ||
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The earliest biography of Muhammad was written about 100 years after his death, so any historicism is on slightly shaky grounds. None of these stories would be accepted by all Muslims -- there is a lot of room for plausible deniability. I don't think this question is answerable in the form "did Muhammad really do this" or "would all Muslims agree that Muhammad did this?" | The earliest biography of Muhammad was written about 100 years after his death, so any historicism is on slightly shaky grounds. None of these stories would be accepted by '''all''' Muslims -- there is a lot of room for plausible deniability. I don't think this question is answerable in the form "did Muhammad really do this" or "would all Muslims agree that Muhammad did this?" | ||
But the real question you're wondering about is probably more like the following: how many of these deaths were attributed to Muhammad by Muslims soon after his death, for the reasons given in the article? | But the real question you're wondering about is probably more like the following: '''how many of these deaths were attributed to Muhammad by ''Muslims'' soon after his death, for the reasons given in the article?''' | ||
The answer: all of them. | The answer: '''all of them'''. | ||
Where you see the words "Sirat Rasul Allah" on the list of primary sources in this table, this refers to Ibn Ishaq's early biography of Muhammad, which is the source for probably 90% of any biographical information anyone has ever found about Muhammad. Muslims often doubt the historical veracity of the stories in this book: for example, it contains poetry ascribed to people who were not poets, and the Satanic Verses story which many Muslims discount. But non-Muslims should be in a state of doubt about everything said about and attributed to Muhammad, and this "Sirat Rasul Allah" was indeed written by a Muslim, and much of the book has been reused in other biographies. | Where you see the words "Sirat Rasul Allah" on the list of primary sources in this table, this refers to Ibn Ishaq's early biography of Muhammad, which is the source for probably 90% of any biographical information anyone has ever found about Muhammad. Muslims often doubt the historical veracity of the stories in this book: for example, it contains poetry ascribed to people who were not poets, and the Satanic Verses story which many Muslims discount. But non-Muslims should be in a state of doubt about everything said about and attributed to Muhammad, and this "Sirat Rasul Allah" was indeed written by a Muslim, and much of the book has been reused in other biographies. | ||
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One can debate endlessly over which of these stories is more plausible. There can be no resolution to that. But did an early Muslim, and an intelligent historical writer, state that Muhammad directly ordered the killing? Yes. So it was within the range of plausibility in the early Muslim community. | One can debate endlessly over which of these stories is more plausible. There can be no resolution to that. But did an early Muslim, and an intelligent historical writer, state that Muhammad directly ordered the killing? Yes. So it was within the range of plausibility in the early Muslim community. | ||
Either way, no one claims that anyone was admonished for this murder of a poet.}} | Either way, no one claims that anyone was admonished for this murder of a poet. | ||
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Note also that the source for many/most of these seems to be the Hadith [not sirat], a collection of accounts (we'd call them 'oral histories') of Mohammed's actions made fairly soon after his death. So they are perhaps roughly analogous to the Christian New Testament. }} | |||