398
edits
Historical Errors in the Quran: Difference between revisions
→Destroyed towns nearby Mecca
| [unchecked revision] | [checked revision] |
(→Sodom and Gomorrah being located near Mecca and Medina: Added in a small section on the verse about The Romans being defeated in a nearby land and the questions that has raised some academics.) |
|||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 268: | Line 268: | ||
</ref> Leaving a site much further North the more fitting to this verse. | </ref> Leaving a site much further North the more fitting to this verse. | ||
=== Destroyed towns nearby Mecca === | |||
In addition to Lot above, in a surah said to be revealed in Mecca in the traditional account,<ref>[https://tanzil.net/docs/revelation_ordeR ''Traditional Revelation Order''] (''Taken from [https://playandlearn.org/Articles/HistoryOfQuran.pdf The History of the Quran] by Abu Abd Allah al-Zanjani''). Tanzil Project. (Tanzil is an international Quranic project aimed at providing a highly verified precise Quran text in Unicode.)</ref> a verse brings the attention of the audience to the destruction of the towns and people's around them. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|46|27}}|Certainly We have destroyed the towns that were around you, and We have variously paraphrased the signs so that they may come back.}} | |||
And as Patricia Crone mentioned in her 2008 article [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mohammed_3866jsp/ ''What do we actually know about Mohammed?''] ''<nowiki/>'There were many such ruined sites in northwest Arabia.','' while they are not known to be around Mecca, though archaeological digs there are currently limited.<ref>Schick, Robert, “[https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-the-quran/archaeology-and-the-quran-EQSIM_00031?lang=fr ''Archaeology and the Qurʾān'']”, in: Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, General Editor: Johanna Pink, University of Freiburg. Consulted online on 09 March 2024 <<nowiki>http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQSIM_00031</nowiki>></ref> | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||