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Recent advances in archeology and technology
have allowed historians to better examine the claims of ancient
writings. Researcher Dan Gibson recently published some controversial
theories in his book: Qur'anic Geography which
challenged previously held opinions of the locations of the "People
of 'Ad" mentioned in the Qur'an and also the location of
the first Islamic Holy City. Gibson claimed this city was Petra
located in southern Jordan and it was only during an early Islamic
civil war that the Black Stone was moved south into Saudi Arabia
to the present location of Mecca. Thus, Muslims today are not
praying in the same direction that Muhammad and the first four
caliphs prayed.
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Is the ancient city of Petra the original
Holy City of Islam. Amazing new evidence points to Petra as being
the place where Muhammad was born, and from where Islam first
started.
This raised serious questions, such as:
should Muslims be facing the original QIbla that Muhammad gave
them or should they face the present city of Mecca?
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- Full color, 308 pages,
- Independent Scholars Press
- ISBN: 978-1-927581-22-3
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New archeological evidence clearly demonstrates that early
Islamic mosques were not erroneously oriented as previously thought.
Using modern technology and satellite imaging, Canadian historian
Dan Gibson has discovered that early Islamic mosques were oriented
to four different places. And they are not where Islam expects
them to be.
For the first time in history Dan Gibson has undertaken a
comprehensive survey of Islamic mosques from the first two centuries
of Islam. Using this data, Gibson demonstrates that Muhammad
and the first four caliphs all prayed towards a different place!
This location was also the focus of their pilgrimage. Gibson
believes that Muslims are disobeying their prophet by focusing
their prayers on a Black Stone in Saudi Arabia, when the Qur'an
commands them to face the original location.
This book contains all of the data behind the documentary
film The Sacred City. Viewers of this film can now check
the background data for themselves and investigate further arguments
that were not included in the film. Complete with hundreds of
images, charts, maps and footnotes, this volume clearly challenges
traditionally held Islamic history.
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- This remarkable work investigates
in great detail the history and evolution of many of the tribes
and cultures of Arabia and adjacent lands and their contact and
trade with regions as distant as China. Gibson presents new,
but well-researched, theories on many historical events which
still affect our world today. These range from the development
of navigation, overland and maritime trade routes and, perhaps,
most controversially, his convincingly argued proposal that Petra
was the original Holy City of Islam which was later shifted to
Mecca. His careful use of Biblical and Islamic literature, historical
and archaeological data, is wonderfully informed by some thirty
years of study and travel in the Middle East. With his family,
he lived some years among the Bedouin in the desert near Petra,
where he got to know the people and the region intimately. This
well-presented book is generously illustrated with excellent
photos, maps, diagrams and tables, which are of great assistance
to following and clarifying the text. ....
John E. Hill, author of Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han
Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE,
Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
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