While the trend among Western scholars of Islam is away from such radical doubt, four decades later some scholars still promote the idea that the Kaaba was not originally in Mecca. The Kaaba is now surrounded by towers, including one of the world’s tallest buildings. Though Crone and Cook later repudiated the theory their book advanced, Crone at least held fast to the idea that Islam originated in the Fertile Crescent, possibly in Nabatea. Concerning the early mosques in Egypt and Iraq, David King says:Īmong other things, these revisionists said that Mecca was not Islam’s birthplace, which they located somewhere in the Fertile Crescent.
were used to direct the mosques towards qibla. Astronomical phenomenon such as sunrise or sunset during equinoxes, solstices, Pole star, Canopus, etc.
Modern studies have shown that in the early mosques astronomical alignments were used for qibla. Regardless of any shifts in his thinking, his theories fall flat on their face as shown on Islamic Awareness 15 years ago: One would imagine, to the embarrassment of serious-minded and more scholarly Christians.Īdmittedly I don’t follow Jay Smith as closely as some but from the Islamic Awareness article, it appears Smith has revised his own theories back in the early 2000s he used to claim the qibla was in the vicinity of Jerusalem and nowadays he’s claiming it is Petra. Jay Smith of Pfander Films is the chief advocate of such polemics in Christian-Muslim apologetics circles. It will not come as a surprise that advocates of this revisionist theory also adopt ideas such as “the Quran was invented after the Prophet” (or even before the Prophet!) P The revisionist theory of Petra being an earlier qibla (prayer direction) for Muslims prior to Mecca is essentially part of a larger conspiracy theory amongst revisionists who posit Islam developed over a period of time after the Prophet.
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