07-25-2008, 05:25 PM
Shlama Judge,
It's really interesting that you should mention this new book right now.
I started reading 'By Foot To China--Mission of the Church of the East, To 1400', by John M.L. Young, last night again.
I'm on page 24, of 109.
It makes mention "he (Mohammed) had reason to befriend the Christian's for a "Nestorian" had been Mohammed's teacher at one point.....".
I think that there are still DEEP influences within Islam from the Church of East of those days.
The way in which Muslims pray and some other things that they do religiously, probably came from directly from The Church of the East.
I can remember Akhi Paul (Younan) mentioning this in a post, perhaps a few months ago.
I might go looking for that post in the next day or two, and see if I can find it again.
There maybe some website that I know nothing about that describes early Islam's COE "connections", if anyone knows of such a website, I'd love to go and check it out.
I just thought how "timely" that it was that you brought this up, and I started reading 'By Foot To China' again.
Messiah's Peace Be Upon You,
Albion
P.S. Judge if you buy and finish reading this book, I'd really enjoy 'A reader's review'.
Thanks
It's really interesting that you should mention this new book right now.
I started reading 'By Foot To China--Mission of the Church of the East, To 1400', by John M.L. Young, last night again.
I'm on page 24, of 109.
It makes mention "he (Mohammed) had reason to befriend the Christian's for a "Nestorian" had been Mohammed's teacher at one point.....".
I think that there are still DEEP influences within Islam from the Church of East of those days.
The way in which Muslims pray and some other things that they do religiously, probably came from directly from The Church of the East.
I can remember Akhi Paul (Younan) mentioning this in a post, perhaps a few months ago.
I might go looking for that post in the next day or two, and see if I can find it again.
There maybe some website that I know nothing about that describes early Islam's COE "connections", if anyone knows of such a website, I'd love to go and check it out.
I just thought how "timely" that it was that you brought this up, and I started reading 'By Foot To China' again.
Messiah's Peace Be Upon You,
Albion
P.S. Judge if you buy and finish reading this book, I'd really enjoy 'A reader's review'.
Thanks
judge Wrote:There is a new book out , The Hidden Origins of Islam, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1591026342/ I dont know if anyone is familiar with this field but it may be in part at least, a response to some of the criticisms of this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syro-Ar..._The_Koran